Wally Schirra
Actor
12 de marzo de 1923 — 3 de mayo de 2007 (84 años)
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | Apollo 1 · as Self |
| 2020 | The Real Right Stuff · as Self |
| 2019 | Apollo: Missions to the Moon · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Mercury 13 · as Self - Mercury Astronaut |
| 2016 | Space Men · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | The Saturn V Story · as Self |
| 2012 | Neil Armstrong: One Small Step · as Self - Witness |
| 2008 | Project Gemini: Bridge to the Moon · as SelfEn Plex |
| 2003 | Failure Is Not an Option · as Self - Astronaut |
| 2001 | Korean War Stories · as Self |
| 1999 | In Search of Liberty Bell 7 · as Self |
| 1998 | Phenomenon: The Lost Archives · as Self |
| 1994 | Moon Shot · as Self - Astronaut |
| 1991 | Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special · as Self |
| 1989 | For All Mankind · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1985 | Spaceflight · as Self |
| 1970 | Dinah's Place · as Self - Astronaut |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show · as Self - Guest |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show · as Self - Apollo 7 Astronaut |
| 1947 | Meet the Press · as Self - Guest |
| 2010 | Moonbug · as Cast |
| 1972 | The Astronaut · as Cast |