Early astronaut Wally Schirra dies
Walter M. (Wally) Schirra, one of NASA's original astronauts and the only one to have flown in space on board Mercury, Gemini and Apollo vehicles, died May 2 at the age of 84. His family asked that the cause of death be reported as "natural causes." Schirra was already a Korean War air combat...
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