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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Wally Schirra, Jr. rode his one-man Mercury spacecraft atop an Atlas rocket to orbit on Oct. 3, 1962. The nine-hour mission on the "Sigma 7" capsule was the longest to date for a U.S. flight.

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 … ...

Wally Schirra, the original astronaut with the 'right stuff' to fly all three of the United States' early spacecraft, has recently launched his first mission into cyberspace: the debut of ...