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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Attended Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, 1941 BS, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1945 Attended Naval Air Safety Officer School, University of Southern California, San Diego, California, 1957 M
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Captain, United States Navy (retired)

PRE-NASA CAREER: United States Navy Served, Battle Cruiser Alaska (1945) Staff, Seventh Fleet, China (1946) Pilot, Navy Fighter Squadron 71, Quonset Point, Rhode Island (1948-1951) Exchange Pilot, 154th US Air Force Fighter Bomber Squadron, Korea (1951-1952) Served in Development of Sidewinder Missile, Naval Ordnance Training Station, China Lake, California (1952-1954) Project Pilot, F7U-3 Cutlass and FJ3 Fury, Miramar Air Naval Station, San Diego (1954) Training pilot, Moffett Field, California (1954-1955) Operations Officer, 124th Fighter Squadron, Carrier Lexington, Pacific Ocean (19551957) Test Pilot, Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland (1958-1959) NASA CAREER: NASA, Langley Research Center, Virginia Astronaut (1959-1964) NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas Astronaut (1964-1969) POST-NASA CAREER: Board Member, Imperial American Oil and Gas (1967-1969) President, Regency Investors, Denver, Colorado (1969-1970) Founder, Environmental Control Company (1970- date unknown) Chairman, SERNCO, California (date unknown -1974) Officer, Johns Manville Corporation (1975-1977)


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Officer, Goodwin Company (1977-1979) Founder, Schirra Enterprises (1979- date unknown) Spokesperson, Actifed M
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: Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) (Sigma 7) · Crew: Walter M. Schirra, Jr. · Launched: 3 October 1962 at 7:15 A.M. EST from Cape Canaveral, FL · Duration: 9 hours, 13 minutes, 11 seconds · Landed: 3 October 1962 at 4:28 P.M. EST in the Pacific Ocean · Mission Highlights: Corroborate man and spacecraft in orbit for 9 hours. Gemi · · · · · ni VI-A (GT-6A) Crew: Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Pilot Thomas P. Stafford Launched: 15 December 1965 at 8:37:26 A.M. EST from Cape Canaveral, FL Duration: 25 hours, 51 minutes, 24 seconds Landed: 16 December 1965 at 10:28:50 A.M. EST in the Atlantic Ocean Mission Highlights: First manned rendezvous (with Gemini VII).

Apollo 7 (AS-205) · Crew: Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham · Launched: 11 October 1968 at 11:02:45 A.M. EDT from Kennedy Space Center, FL · Duration: 10 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes, 58 seconds · Landed: 22 October at 7:11:43 A.M. EST, Atlantic Ocean · Mission Highlights: First manned flight of the Apollo program. Demonstrate performance of Command And Service Modules, crew, and mission support. PROFESSIONAL & HONORARY SOCIETIES: · Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots · Fellow, American Astronautical Society AWARDS & CITATIONS: · Distinguished Flying Cross · Two Air Medals · Two NASA Distinguished Service Medals · Navy Astronaut Wings · American Rocket Society Astronautics Award, 1963 · Collier Trophy, 1963 · American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Award, 1963 · American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award, 1966 · 1965 Harmon International Aviation Trophy, 1966 · NASA Exceptional Service Medal


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Distinguished Alumnus Award, Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Astronautical Engineering Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 1966 Society of Experimental Test Pilots Kincheloe Award

SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Carpenter, M. Scott, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. We Seven. New York: Simon Schuster, 1962. Schirra, Walter M., Jr. Schirra's Space. With Richard N. Billings. Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988. BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Schirra's Space, With Richard N. Billings (Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988), 1-227. NASA Biographies for Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. Biographical Files. Scientific and Technical Information Center. Johnson Space Center, Houston. M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. Slayton, We Seven (New York: Simon Schuster, 1962), 58-64. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA SHEET CRE
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