One of the worlds earliest astronauts has died of a heart attack. He was the only astronauts to fly on all three Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.
Why is this in my blog? As a young boy I followed every single aspect of the early space missions. Sitting and listening to my fathers old valve based Philips radio, we used to listen in to the overseas broadcasts from American radio stations broadcasting various information about each and every space flight – Walter Schirra’s flight in MA-8 was on Oct. 3, 1962 and lasted 9 Hours and 13 Minutes and he landed just 8 km from his return target!
He eventually went on to fly on the Gemini VI mission and finally captained the first Apollo mission Apollo 7 along side Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham in November of 1968 laying down the foundations for mans first trip to the moon.
In today’s world full of some much technology that’s taken for granted like PC’s, Ipods, Computer games and the Space Shuttle, it’s important not to forget people like Schirra, who paved the way so that many others should follow and benefit from various technologies used in the space program.
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