Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project

Wally Schirra

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Walter Marty (Wally) Schirra, Jr., born on 12 March, 1923 in Hackensack, New Jersey), was the third American to orbit the earth. He died on 3 May 2007 of a heart attack, at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California.

Mercury Mission

Schirra flew spacecraft 16 a.k.a Sigma 7 on the MA-8 mission.

Technical Reponsibilities During Project Mercury

Schirra concentrated on the life support system.

Biography/Memoirs

Schirra's Space by Walter M. Schirra and Richard N. Billings.

ISBN 1557700346 hardcover 1st Edition

ISBN 1557507929 paperback revised edition

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