Wally Schirra
American - ( NASA)
Deceased
Date of Birth: March 12, 1923
Date of Death: May 3, 2007
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings in space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first manned launch for the Apollo program.
Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 8
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 3, 1962, 12:15 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
Mercury-Atlas 6 carrying Sigma 7 spacecraft carried astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. to orbit where he completed 6 orbits lasting a total of 9 hours and 13 minutes. The mission goal was to compete engineering tests and all objectives were met.
Low Earth Orbit
Titan II GLV | Gemini VI-A
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Dec. 15, 1965, 1:37 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
Gemini 6A was the fifth crewed mission of the NASA's Project Gemini. The mission was commaned by Command Pilot Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford. The mission achieved the first rewed rendezvous with the Gemini 7 spacecraft. The mission began on December 15, 1965, 13:37:26 UTC and ended on December 16, 1965, 15:28:50 UTC.
Low Earth Orbit
Saturn IB | Apollo 7
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | USACape Canaveral, FL, USA
Oct. 11, 1968, 3:02 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission: Human Exploration
The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. Their mission was Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) with a crew on board.
Low Earth Orbit
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Long March 4C
Yaogan 34-04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaOfficially described as an optical remote-sensing satellite built by SAST.
Long March 2D
PIESAT-1 x 4
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for PIESAT (1 main, 3 sub-satellites), operating in tandem using very long baseline in…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 5-10
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 56 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2-1v
Kosmos 2568 (EO MKA-4)
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationNote: Payload identity uncertain. Russian reconnaissance satellite of unknown purposes, possibly in the same series as Kosmos 2551, 2555 and 2560.
Shavit-2
Ofek-13
Unknown Pad - Palmachim Airbase, State of IsraelOfek is a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites. Ofek-13 is an Israeli SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) reconnaissance satellite that combines hi…
