Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died
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Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.Donn F. Eisele, The Apollo 7 astronauts also won a special Emmy award for their daily television reports from orbit, during which they clowned around, held up humorous signs and educated earthlings about space flight.in a launch pad fire Jan. 27, 1967.
In an interview the year before his death, Cunningham recalled growing up poor and dreaming of flying airplanes, not spacecraft.The Spokesman-Review.
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