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Człowiek i Astronautyka => Osobistości => Wątek zaczęty przez: Orionid w Marca 12, 2023, 12:53
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Dziś przypada 100. rocznica urodzin astronauty.
7. (9) człowiek w kosmosie.
Wchodził w skład legendarnej 1-szej grupy astronautów powołanej w 1959 roku.
Był jednym z pionierów przecierających szlaki ku księżycowym wyprawom ludzi.
Walter Marty Schirra (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/9.htm) odbył 3 loty kosmiczne w ramach 3. różnych programów załogowych o łącznym czasie trwania 12d 07h 13m 38s.
https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-walter-wally-schirra/
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/schirra_walter.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/s/schirra.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/s/schirra-w.php
https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00007.htm
https://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/schirra-jr-walter-marthy.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/register/514.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/schirra9ru.html
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Schirra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Schirra
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/000756-7.html
AA https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4183.msg148391#msg148391
A7 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3338.msg123264#msg123264
AA A9 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3339.msg123267#msg123267
TSR https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4134.msg171148#msg171148
RWC https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5200.msg180954#msg180954
Mercury 8 https://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/schirra.htm
WP https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=5004.msg182242#msg182242
https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/1634812719181250560https://www.nasa.gov/subject/7224/wally-schirra/
https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1634924712127254531
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1635046531580538881
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Wally Schirra, only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, dies at 84
May 3, 2007 — One of the first seven "original" American astronauts and the only one to fly on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, Walter "Wally" Schirra died on Thursday (May 3) after being hospitalized for a heart attack. He was earlier diagnosed with cancer. (...)
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050307a-wally-schirra-mercury-gemini-apollo-astronaut-obituary.html
(https://www.navytimes.com/resizer/J7Upews-ZCk_9hN_Ox6BtuZRiok=/1440x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/archetype/BJ5LQAPMNFAJXI3DV4PB6RC6GM.jpg)
Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, the mission pilot of MR-4, with Walter M. Schirra, at NASA astronaut quarters in hangar S at Cape Canaveral Florida on July 19, 1961, prior to the planned second manned sub-orbital space effort. Flight was later postponed. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/04/08/remembering-wally/
https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-95000/NH-95033.html
Wally, Walt, and Whatshisname: The Three Heroes Who Set Apollo’s Course for the Moon
by Ben Evans 9 years ago
(http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/schirra.jpg)
Wally Schirra (right) consults the flight plan for his Mercury-Atlas-8 (MA-8) mission with Flight Director Chris Kraft. Photo Credit: NASA
(...) Forty-five years ago today, on 22 October 1968, the future began. With the successful return of Apollo 7 astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham, following an 11-day mission in Earth orbit, the spacecraft which would one day transport humans to the Moon completed its inaugural shakedown voyage. The flight of Schirra’s crew finally laid the ghosts of the Apollo 1 fire to rest and enabled NASA to boldly press ahead with its plan to direct Apollo 8 to perform the first piloted expedition to lunar orbit. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2013/10/22/wally-walt-and-whathisname-the-three-heroes-who-set-apollos-course-for-the-moon/
Walter Schirra – the only Man to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
aviation, space 12. March 2022
http://scihi.org/walter-schirra-mercury-gemini-apollo/
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/HQ_07100_Schirra_Dies.html
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/SchirraWM/SchirraWM_12-1-98.htm
https://insubricahistorica.ch/blog/2018/04/11/american-hero-and-astronaut-walter-schirra-with-family-roots-from-ticino/
https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1786103791965671896
3 May 2007. Death of Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. American test pilot, US Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. The only man to fly in all of America's first three space programs and the fifth American to ride a rocket into space.
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Bette Rogge interviews astronauts Walter Schirra, James Lovell and Frank Borman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjVR5LU3lRw
Oral History: Wally Schirra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=354L4-mGio8
Oct. 15, 1962 - Homecoming Celebration for NASA Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIodWFTz-4
ASTRONAUT SCHIRRA - SOUND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZp_bePd-A
October 16, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy greets Astronaut Walter M. Schirra and family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUHAUSwrvjk
Walter Schirra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBwDbWAh1Nc
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Today we remember astronaut Wally Schirra, born #OTD March 12, 1923. Wally is the only astronaut to have flown Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
https://x.com/contactlight69/status/1899504836975931545
March 12, 1923 Walter “Wally” Schirra was born in Hackensack, NJ. Schirra was a part of Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A and #Apollo7
Schirra was one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space
https://x.com/contactlight69/status/1899505067834724547
Born 12 March 1923. Walter Marty Schirra, Jr., test pilot, United States Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts. The only man to fly in all of America's first three space programs. He was the first man to go into space three times.
https://x.com/ron_eisele/status/1899526144078049648