The last surviving astronaut of Apollo 7, NASA’s first successful manned space mission for the Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning in Houston. NASA, in a press release, confirmed the ...

Cunningham was one of the earliest members of NASA’s human spaceflight program as a member of its third astronaut class, joining the space agency in 1963. He was selected to pilot Apollo 7 ...

On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, paving the way for the Artemis Generation we see today," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a ...

But Apollo 7 provided critical momentum for NASA at a time when the space agency’s mission to land a man on the moon seemed in doubt. Less than two years earlier, on Jan. 27, 1967, the three cre ...

NASA said that along with being a fighter pilot, physicist and entrepreneur, above all, "he was an explorer." "On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made ...

Apollo 7's 11-day trip around the Earth was a key stepping stone to NASA's march to the moon. "The real accomplishment, of course, was the first manned landing on the moon," Cunningham told NPR in ...

Walter Cunningham was a former NASA astronaut best remembered for flying the Apollo 7 mission in October 1968. He was the second American civilian to fly in space. Cunningham was born on March 16 ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday that Cunningham was “above all” an explorer whose work also laid the foundation for the agency’s new Artemis moon program. The Apollo 7 astronauts ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday that Cunningham was “above all” an explorer whose work also laid the foundation for the agency’s new Artemis moon program. The Apollo 7 astronauts ...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death ...