"Wally" Schirra Jr and Thomas P ... there wasn't much room for stuff of any kind, though each astronaut was allowed to bring along a handful of personal items, usually consisting of small ...

Could an astronaut leave the relative safety of ... when command-pilot Wally Schirra brought his spacecraft within inches of Frank Borman's Gemini 7. The maneuver required more than 35,000 ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all ...

A gold watch gifted to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Amstrong following his "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" is on the auction block and projected to sell for over $2 million. The ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

Hanwha Ocean announced on the 13th that the United States Navy ship USNS Wally Schirra has completed maintenance, repair, and operation (MRO) work and has departed. The appearance of the ‘Wally ...

Space music dates back to 1965 when Gemini 6 astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford smuggled ... Art Beyond Earth Apollo 15’s crew left _The Fallen Astronaut_, a 3.3-inch aluminium sculpture ...