Wally Schirra Portrait
Name/Title
Wally Schirra PortraitEntry/Object ID
93.2.26Description
Portrait has a bio of Schirra on the backContext
On October 3, 1962 Walter M Schirra, Jr. made Americas first most successful manned orbital flight. He traveled 6 orbits in his Mercury capsule, Sigma 7. He completed each orbit in 89 minutes and covered 160,000 miles. He was in orbit for 8 ¾ hrs. and reached a height of 176 miles. Schirra, a lieutenant commander in the Navy was Born March 12, 1923 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He attended primary and junior high schools in Oradell, New Jersey. Schirra was graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1940 and attended Newark College of Engineering for one year. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1945. Schirra has had test pilot training at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent, Maryland and Was in suitability development work on the F4H Prior to becoming an astronaut. He has more than 3,000 hrs. of flying time with over 1,800 hours in jets. He has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals for his Korean Service Photo Courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Card 24. – Exhibit Supply Co. - Printed in USACategory
Photograph