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Walter Cunningham
 
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Walter Cunningham |
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Born on: |
16 Mar 1932 |
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Join NASA in: |
17 Oct 1963 |
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Current status: |
Retired 1 Aug 1971 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Apollo 7 |
LMP |
11.10. - 22.10.1968 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Walter Cunningham was one of
the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in October
1963.
On October 11, 1968, he occupied the lunar module pilot
seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7--the first
manned flight test of the third generation United States
spacecraft. With Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Donn F.
Eisele, Cunningham participated in and executed maneuvers
enabling the crew to perform exercises in transposition
and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous with the S-IVB
stage of their Saturn IB launch vehicle; completed eight
successful test and maneuvering ignitions of the service
module propulsion engine; measured the accuracy of
performance of all spacecraft systems; and provided the
first live television transmission of onboard crew
activities. The 263-hour, four-and-a-half million mile
shakedown flight was successfully concluded on October 22,
1968, with splashdown occurring in the Atlantic--some
eight miles from the carrier ESSEX (only 3/10 of a mile
from the originally predicted aiming point).
Walter Cunningham's last assignment at the Johnson Space
Center was Chief of the Skylab Branch of the Flight Crew
Directorate. In this capacity he was responsible for the
operational inputs for five major pieces of manned space
hardware, two different launch vehicles and 56 major
on-board experiments that comprised the Skylab program.
The Skylab program also utilized the first manned systems
employing arrays for electrical power, molecular sieves
for environmental control systems and inertia storage
devices for attitude control systems.
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