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 ...

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 ...

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

Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr. was best known to the public as the fun-loving prankster of The Right Stuff, and when he died on May 3, 2007 many began to realize that he was the only astronaut to fly ...

Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA's early space missions, has died at the age of 84, a NASA ...

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 ...

Hanwha Ocean aims to expand in the U.S. naval MRO market, focusing on engineering capabilities, infrastructure upgrades and ...