Walter Cunningham, , Apollo 7 Astronaut, , Dead at 90.<br />Walter Cunningham, , Apollo 7 Astronaut, , Dead at 90.<br />The death of the civilian astronaut was announced by NASA on Jan. 4.<br />Cunningham was a member of the three-person crew of Apollo 7.<br />Apollo 7 was also NASA's first crewed mission to space... .<br />... following the disastrous capsule fire that claimed the lives of three astronauts preparing for the Apollo 1 mission.<br />In his 1977 memoir, 'The All American Boys,' Cunningham alluded to the importance of the Apollo 7 flight.<br />We carried the nation’s <br />hope with us. , Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The All American Boys' .<br />Twenty-one months before, a fire on the very pad from which we launched had killed three of <br />our teammates, Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The All American Boys' .<br />One more setback now, and the prospects of landing a man on the moon before 1970 would be <br />gone forever, Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The All American Boys' .<br />Apollo 7 was Cunningham's sole mission into space.<br />I consider it a spectacle I took part in. I came away thinking there wasn’t anything I <br />couldn’t handle, Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The New York Times' .<br />When asked if his experience in space changed his outlook, Cunningham offered a grounded response.<br />I am a physicist, and everything I encountered in the flight can <br />be explained. , Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The New York Times'.<br />It did not change my view of religion, life, earth. It had <br />no revelations, Walter Cunningham, NASA Astronaut, <br />via 'The New York Times'
