On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...

This was seven years before Omega landed on the moon, and three years before NASA had qualified the Speedmaster for official manned flight missions and began issuing the watches to astronauts. The ...

The USS Wasp (CV-18), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, earned a remarkable eight battle stars and numerous commendations for ...

On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas ...

In 1955, low water levels in the Mississippi River revealed bridge supports and mud flats due to Midwest drought.

The way we got this was, my father was a doctor in the Air Force, and he conducted the first medical evaluations of the original team of astronauts. So we have Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom ...

In an Artillery Shell. During Schirra’s astronaut training, he built up a reputation as a dedicated, no-nonsense student of the just-born art of space flight. He has kept his sense of humor and ...

NASA astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra famously wore the second-gen Speedy on the Mercury-Atlas 8: Sigma 7 mission of 1962, earning it the title of “first Omega in Space.” Omega did drop a ...

Seven years before the moon landing, in 1962, astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra wore his personal Speedmaster during the Sigma 7 mission of the Mercury program, giving that model its own place ...