Topic: Wally Schirra
I was present when more than once when Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, et al teased Grissom about the dimes and other trinkets he took aboard Liberty Bell 7. And, trust me, Gus Grissom never owned these dimes. The Liberty Bell 7 sank ...
The Real Space Cowboys" by Ed Buckbee with Wally Schirra chronicles the early years of space exploration with interviews, photos, first-person accounts and insights into what it was like to be one of the first seven astronauts for NASA.
Apollo was a massive national effort involving hundreds of thousands of people, but only twelve walked on the moon. Mission commander Wally Schirra had been wary of flying a TV camera on this first mission after the Apollo 1 fire. Sam Russell ...
The seven original Mercury astronauts check out the couches they would ride to space inside their capsules. Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom, and Bob Gilruth, director of the Space Task Group. Fifty years ...
At NASA's advanced supercomputing facility, at its Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., the space agency maintains Pleiades, which at a current official measurement of 973 teraflops--or 973 trillion floating point operations per second--is the world's sixth-most powerful computer ...
As a distant war was intensifying and the city of New Orleans was slowly recovering from a hurricane's devastation, ten days before Christmas 1965, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration got an early holiday present: astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr ...
It was July 15, 1969, the eve of Apollo 11 s launch. In the photo, astronaut Wally Schirra sits third from right, next to his wife Jo. "Wally Schirra was a big cut-up," recalls Booth. Once, when she was scheduled to visit ...
Wally Schirra was one of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. On that same day, the Zagami Meteorite fell on Zagami, Katsina Province, Nigeria. Weighing at about 18,000 grams (40 pounds), the Zagami meteorite is the largest ...
Relatives and Fellow Astronauts Gather in Calif. to Remember Wally SchirraThree former astronauts remembered colleague Walter "Wally" Schirra as a top-notch aviator, national hero and inveterate prankster Monday at a memorial service.Schirra, who died May 3 in San Diego at age ...
