Last Living Apollo 7 Astronaut Died At Age 90

Walter Cunningham was a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency's Apollo program.

The last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut has died at the age of 90.

Walter Cunningham was a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s Apollo program. He was a member of NASA’s third astronaut class in their human spaceflight program and was selected to pilot the first crewed mission of the NASA program that landed humans on the moon for the first time.

The Apollo 7 mission launched in 1968 and was nearly 11 days. It sent humans on a journey into orbit that proved the Apollo capsule’s ability to further human studies deeper into space.

Cunningham was the last astronaut alive that completed that mission and made history.