Walter Cunningham was born on 16 March 1932 in Creston, Iowa, USA. He was married to Lo Ella Irby, Dot and Dorothy. He died on 3 January 2023 in Houston, Texas, USA.
Flew with Donn Fulton Eisele and Wally Schirra on Apollo 7, the backup crew for the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission. The flight lasted almost 11 days in October 1968. Except for a nasty head cold caught by Schirra, the first test of the Apollo command module was a complete success.
