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

Schirra, 84, was the first astronaut to fly three times in space. May 3, 2007 — -- Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of America's original seven astronauts, has died at the age of 84. Schirra, said ...

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 ...

The auction hammer fell on Thursday evening (Oct. 20) at $1,525,563 for Wally Schirra's Apollo 11 commemorative Omega Speedmaster Professional. With fees included, the watch sold for $1,906,953.75 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Fifty years ago on Wednesday, the United States launched its fifth astronaut into space. Wally Schirra, Jr. rode his one-man Mercury spacecraft atop an Atlas rocket to orbit on Oct. 3, 1962. The ...

One of the original Mercury Seven astronauts has died. Wally Schirra was the only man to fly in all three of NASA's early space programs — Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. He was 84.

Capt. Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., who died in 2007 at age 84 at a La Jolla hospital, was the fifth American in space, flying a six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on Oct. 3, 1962.

Walter M. (Wally) Schirra, one of NASA's original astronauts and the only one to have flown in space on board Mercury, Gemini and Apollo vehicles, died May 2 at the age of 84. His family asked ...

Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., who as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts combined the "right stuff" -- textbook-perfec Astronaut Wally Schirra, 84, dies Skip to main content Skip to main ...