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Mercury-Atlas 8: Portrait of Walter Schirra

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-mer08-10001

Date

2006-09-06

Astronaut Walter M. `Wally` Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. The MA-8 (Mercury-Atlas) mission with Sigma 7 spacecraft was the third manned orbital flight by the United States, and made the six orbits in 9-1/4 hours. 1962.