Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly in all three of NASA's earliest manned spaceships, has died at the age of 84.

SAN DIEGO – Wally Schirra, who as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts combined the Right Stuff -- textbook-perfect flying ability and steely nerves -- with a pronounced rebellious ...

Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., who followed his barnstorming parents into the sky as a Navy combat pilot and was the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs, has ...

Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, was the only one of them to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- Astronaut Wally Schirra made America's fifth manned spaceflight and third orbital flight 50 years ago today. The solo flight in Schirra's Mercury capsule dubbed Sigma 7 ...

Wally Schirra once told Chris Kraft to go to hell. Remember the astronaut, who died this week at 84, for a lot of things, but put that particular bit of courage near the top of your list.

The story of Scott Carpenter’s Aurora 7 flight is often contrasted with Wally Schirra’s Sigma 7 flight. Both were accomplished pilots when they joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 1959, and ...

To a generation of Americans, they were the ultimate heroes: mythic, larger-than-life figures; possessors of “the right stuff,” blazing trails in the unchartered reaches of space. That … ...

This sleek two-seater first flew in 1959 and went on to train over 50,000 pilots—including famed fliers like Navy Captain Wally Schirra and record-setter Jacqueline Cochran. Known as the “Speed Queen, ...

The USNS Wally Schirra, a U.S. Navy dry cargo ship, departed a South Korean shipyard this week after a seven-month overhaul, marking the first major repair of an American naval vessel by a South ...