Up for auction “Mercury Astronaut” Wally Schirra Hand Signed 3X5 Card This item is certified

authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

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Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007),

(CAPT, USN), was an American naval

officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and

one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project

Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space. He flew the

six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962,

becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space.

In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space

rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within

1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December

1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth

orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module.

He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to

have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours

and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain

and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS

News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He

joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing

missions. Schirra died at the age of 84 on May 3, 2007 of a heart

attack while undergoing treatment for abdominal cancer.

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