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Wally Schirra
Actor
Born March 12, 1923Died May 3, 2007 (84 years)
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
| 2020 | The Real Right Stuff · as Self |
| 2019 | Apollo: Missions to the Moon · as Self |
| 2018 | Mercury 13 · as Self - Mercury Astronaut |
| 2014 | The Saturn V Story · as Self |
| 2012 | Neil Armstrong: One Small Step · as Self - Witness |
| 2008 | |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Moon Shot · as Self - Astronaut |
| 1991 | Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special · as Self |
| 1989 | For All Mankind · as Self |
| 1985 | Spaceflight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1970 | Dinah's Place (TV Series) · as Self - Astronaut |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) · as Self - Apollo 7 Astronaut |
| 1947 | Meet the Press (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |