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NASA Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham has died at age 90

Cunningham piloted the first manned Apollo mission, a key step in the drive to reach the moon, but he never flew in space again. He was a physicist who later became known as a climate-change skeptic.

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NASA Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham has died at age 90

NASA Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham has died at age 90
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NASA Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham has died at age 90

NASA Apollo astronaut Walt Cunningham has died at age 90
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Half a Century Ago, Apollo 8 Gave Mankind a Christmas to Remember

“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” So began the momentous Christmas broadcast on Dec. 24, 1968 the most watched television program in history at that time when astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders read verses from the book of Genesis as they became the first humans in history to leave earth orbit and circle the moon.

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Wally Schirra | Biography, Spaceflights, & Facts

Wally Schirra, U.S. astronaut who flew the Mercury Sigma 7 flight (1962) and was command pilot of Gemini 6 (1965), which made the first space rendezvous. He was the only astronaut to fly in all three of the early U.S. crewed spaceflight programs Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Learn more about Schirra in this article.

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