In 1960, Jerrie Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut fitness tests as. “Into her 80s, she said she still swam and took an occasional cocktail and tried to enjoy what she called ‘the gracious life.’ Her home was filled of pictures of the astronauts and their wives and space memorabilia. A year ago today I watched my friend Wally Funk finally get into space. Some of the younger Mercury 7 wives had “sour grapes” to relate because of all the divorces that ensued after the Apollo program, Jo noted but said she had a wonderful, exciting life, Koppel said. Schirra, at NASA astronaut quarters in hangar S at Cape Canaveral Florida on July 19, 1961, prior to the planned second.

NASA Apollo 7 Astronaut - Walter Wally Schirra. When I visited her, she remembered her days as an Astro Wife fondly and we paged through her numerous carefully kept scrapbooks from back in the day.” 'Gus' Grissom, the mission pilot of MR-4, with Walter M. NASA EXPERIENCE Captain Schirra was one of the seven Mercury Astronauts named by NASA in April 1959 On. “When she won a tennis match against him - to protect his ego, she wouldn’t let this out. Now with the death of Walter Wally' Schirra, the number of the pioneering Mercury astronauts has dwindled to only two - Sen. Wally Schirra was competitive even with his wife, Koppel said, and they vied in sports. “She also had a wry sense of humor - she had to to compete with her husband who was known as the practical joker among the alpha male astronauts.” Heading to space In this 2019 photo made available by NASA, Mercury 13 astronaut trainee Wally Funk visits the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. “The other Mercury wives knew her as the ‘perfect Navy wife’ who would always show up to functions with perfect pearls and gloves on,” Koppel said Monday.

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