{"id":31843,"date":"2023-01-04T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/last-surviving-apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90"},"modified":"2023-01-04T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:18:34","slug":"last-surviving-apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/last-surviving-apollo-7-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90","title":{"rendered":"Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>US astronaut Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the first Nasa mission to ever broadcast live TV from orbit, has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n

Apollo 7 was an 11-day manned mission in 1968 that tested the ability to dock and rendezvous in space. But the crew also won an Emmy for their broadcast.<\/p>\n

It paved the way for the moon landing by Apollo 11 less than a year later.<\/p>\n

Nasa confirmed Cunningham’s death, and said that he was “instrumental to our Moon landing’s program success”.<\/p>\n

A family representative said he died at a hospital in Houston on Tuesday from natural causes “after a full and complete life”.<\/p>\n

“We would like to express our immense pride in the life that he lived, and our deep gratitude for the man that he was – a patriot, an explorer, pilot, astronaut, husband, brother, and father,” the Cunningham family said in a statement shared by Nasa, the US space agency.<\/p>\n

“The world has lost another true hero, and we will miss him dearly.”<\/p>\n

Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa, and went on to earn a masters degree in physics from the University of California in Los Angeles. While working as a civilian at the time, he was one of three astronauts chosen for the first manned spaceflight in the Apollo programme.<\/p>\n

As lunar module pilot for Apollo 7, he was accompanied by Navy Captain Walter Schirra and Air Force Major Donn Eisele.<\/p>\n

He had previously served in the US Navy and Marines and flew 54 missions in a fighter jet over Korea, retiring at the rank of colonel.<\/p>\n

After retiring from Nasa in 1971, he became a public speaker and radio host. He also became an outspoken denier of human-caused climate change, despite the consensus from scientists that humans have contributed to warmer average temperatures on Earth.<\/p>\n

In an interview for Nasa in 1999, he described his mindset during his time as an astronaut.<\/p>\n

“I’m one of those people that never really looked back,” he said.<\/p>\n

“All I remember is just kind of keeping my nose to the grindstone and wanting to do the best I could as – I didn’t realize at the time, but that was because I always wanted to be better prepared for the next step,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been looking to the future. I don’t live in the past.”<\/p>\n

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