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

NASA Walter Cunningham, last surviving NASA Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90: 'True hero' Cunningham was part of team aboard 1968 mission that orbited Earth during 11-day spaceflight ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.

NASA announced the 90-year-old Cunningham's death on Tuesday. ... "On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, ...

The Apollo 7 mission went so well that NASA gave the go-ahead for the crew of Apollo 8 to fly into lunar orbit, just two months later. But in other respects, the Apollo 7 crew had difficulties.

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 ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s … ...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in ...

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, ...