Bidspirit auction | Apollo 7 Astronaut Wally Schirra

Apollo 7 Astronaut Wally Schirra signed 10x8 inch colour photo. Apollo 7 Saturn I October 22nd, 1968, photo Wally Schirra in orbit Unshaved. From Autograph Club with Letter explaining the photo. Space missions: Apollo 7, Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In December 1965, as part of the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program.