Walter Cunningham
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| Astronaut | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Born | March 16, 1932 Creston, Iowa |
| Occupation1 | Fighter Pilot |
| Rank | Colonel, USMC |
| Space time | 10d 20h 08m |
| Selection | 1963 NASA Group |
| Mission(s) | Apollo 7 |
| Mission insignia |  |
| 1 previous or current | |
Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) was an American astronaut.
Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956.
Cunningham received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees in respectively 1960 and 1961, both in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. He then worked as a scientist for the Rand Corporation.
Cunningham was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. On October 11, 1968, he occupied the lunar module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7.
He left NASA in 1971, graduated from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1974, and worked as a business man and investor in a number of private ventures. In 1977, he published The All-American Boys, a reminiscence of his astronaut days. Currently he is a radio personality and public speaker. In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Cunningham was played by Fredric Lehne.
Walter Cunningham is also the name of a character from To Kill a Mockingbird
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