SAN DIEGO – Wally Schirra, who as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts combined the Right Stuff -- textbook-perfect flying ability and steely nerves -- with a pronounced rebellious streak, ...

Capt. Walter M. Schirra Jr. was best known to the public as the fun-loving prankster of The Right Stuff, and when he died on May 3, 2007 many began to realize that he was the only astronaut to fly in ...

SAN DIEGO, CA-"Wally" Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, has died. According to NASA, Schirra's family says he had been suffering from cancer and died Wednesday night. He is the ...

Today is a sad day for NASA and our country, as we mourn the passing yesterday in California of astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra. With Wally’s passing, we at NASA note with sorrow the loss of yet ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. space pioneer Wally Schirra, who helped lead America into the space age as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, has died at the age of 84, NASA said on Thursday. Sign up ...

Thomas Watkins for AP reports: SAN DIEGO - Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA's early space missions, ...

SAN DIEGO — Astronaut Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA’s early space missions, died Thursday. He was 84. Schirra ...

The Navy will launch and christen dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra, Sunday, March 8, 2009, during a 7 a.m. PDT ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif.

In the era of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Artemis I, it can be easy to forget rocket science is, well, just that. Before our modern understanding of the ins and outs of spaceflight, pioneers like Walter ...

Military Sealift Command accepted delivery of dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra in San Diego recently. The ship was built by General Dynamics NASSCO. Schirra, named in honor of astronaut ...