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Walter Marty Schirra Jr., , was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel 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 and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program.
Birth Name
Walter Marty Schirra Jr.
Born
Monday, 12 March 1923
Died
Thursday, 03 May 2007
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Neil Armstrong: One Small Step | Self - Witness | 2022 |
The Real Right Stuff | Self | 2020 |
Apollo: Missions to the Moon | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
Mercury 13 | Self - Mercury astronaut | 2018 |
Space Men | Self (archive footage) | 2016 |
The Saturn V Story | Self | 2014 |
Moonbug | (as Walter Schirra) | 2010 |
Mystères d'archives | Self - Astronaut | 2009 |
Moon Machines | Self | 2008 |
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions | Self | 2008 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Neil Armstrong: One Small Step | Self - Witness | 2022 |
The Real Right Stuff | Self | 2020 |
Apollo: Missions to the Moon | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2019 |
Mercury 13 | Self - Mercury astronaut | 2018 |
Space Men | Self (archive footage) | 2016 |
The Saturn V Story | Self | 2014 |
Moonbug | (as Walter Schirra) | 2010 |
Mystères d'archives | Self - Astronaut | 2009 |
Moon Machines | Self | 2008 |
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions | Self | 2008 |
Mars Rising | Self | 2007 |
Failure Is Not an Option | Self - Astronaut | 2003 |
Project Gemini: Bridge to the Moon | Self | 2008 |
Korean War Stories | Self | 2001 |
Moon Shot | Self - Astronaut | 1994 |
Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1991 |
For All Mankind | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1989 |
American Experience | Self | 1988 |
Spaceflight | Self | 1985 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
The Astronaut | 1972 | |
The Bob Hope Show | Self - Apollo 7 astronaut | 1950 |