Walter Cunningham Born March 16, 1932, Creston, Iowa Bachelor and Master of Arts in Physics, UCLA About the Man Walter Cunningham received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Physics in 1960. He received a Master of Arts degree in Physics in 1961 from the University of California at Los Angeles Cunningham joined the Navy in 1951. He began his flight training in 1952. In 1953, Cunningham joined a Marine Squadron and served on active duty with the United States Marine Corps until August 1956. He continued to serve with the Marine Corps Reserve program until 1975. Walter Cunningham published articles for several magazines, technical journals, and newspapers. Other publications include "Importance of the Observation That Stars Don't Twinkle Outside the Earth's Atmosphere" (with L. Marshall Libby), and The All-American Boys (Macmillan, 1977), the human side of the space program. NASA selected Walter Cunningham with the third group of astronauts chosen in October of 1963. About the Spaceflight Apollo 7   Oct. 11-22, 1968 Walt Cunningham was lunar module pilot for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7. Apollo 7 was the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. During the flight of Apollo 7, astronauts Schirra, Eisele, and Cunningham, tested the spacecraft's systems, specifically the systems that had been redesigned after the Apollo 1 fire. The crew of Apollo 7 also performed rendezvous exercises with the upper stage of the Saturn launch vehicle and provided the first television pictures from a U.S. spacecraft. Apollo splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after 163 orbits. Flight Duration: Ten days, twenty hours, nine minutes, and three seconds Click on the Apollo 7 patch to read about Walt Cunningham's historic spaceflight in more detail at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Website. Graphics and Info Courtesy of NASA and the Kennedy Space Center Walt Cunningham's Guestbook I dumped the guestbook because idiots using freewebs were spamming it with nonsense. If you want to leave comments, visit my Space Blog and leave your comments there. I apologize for the inconvenience. Read about: NASA's Original Seven Astronauts Or NASA's Second Group of Astronauts Return to NASA's Third Group of Astronauts Or to Space...Not Science Fiction Anymore muldrakester@gmail.com Idiots spammed the guestbook, so if you want to comment, send me an email