Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham died at 90. Getty Images. His family, in a statement through NASA, expressed their “immense pride” in the life Cunningham led.

"On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, paving the way for the Artemis Generation we see today," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.

Although Apollo 7 never went to the moon, Apollo 7 astronauts had to endure 11 days orbiting Earth. On top of that, Schirra suffered from a head cold, according to Cunningham.

Apollo 7 splashed down at 7:11 a.m. EDT on October 22, 1968, approximately 200 nautical miles south of Bermuda. Apollo also gave NASA the first live TV broadcast from space, which took place on ...

Apollo 7's 11-day trip around the Earth was a key stepping stone to NASA's march to the moon. "The real accomplishment, of course, was the first manned landing on the moon," Cunningham told NPR in ...

Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham acknowledges the crowd before an Alliance of American Football game between the Orlando Apollos and the Atlanta Legend, Feb. 9, 2019, in Orlando, Fla ...

Astronaut Walt Cunningham (at right) with his Apollo 7 crewmates Donn Eisele (at left) and Walter "Wally" Schirra. (Image credit: NASA) Lifting off with Mercury and Gemini veteran Walter "Wally ...

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space.

Former U.S. astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human moon landing nine months later ...

The Apollo 7/Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. (EDT), Oct. 11, 1968. Apollo 7 (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205) is the first of several ...

But Apollo 7 provided critical momentum for NASA at a time when the space agency’s mission to land a man on the moon seemed in doubt. Less than two years earlier, on Jan. 27, ...