**FILE** Astronaut Walter "Wally" M. Schirra Jr., left, chats with an unidentified guest at the San Diego Aerospace Museum in this Nov. 11, 2005 file photo in San Diego. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, has died. He was 84. (AP Photo/Sandy Huffaker, FILE) ORG XMIT: CASH103 (Sandy Huffaker / The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE** Astronaut Walter M. Schirra's space capsule is guided to the deck of the USS carrier Kearsarge after it was rescued from the Pacific ocean northeast of Midway Island at the end of his six-orbit flight aboard spacecraft Mercury-Atlas 8, in this Oct. 3, 1962 file photo. NASA said Thursday, May 3, 2007, that former Mercury 7 astronaut Wally Schirra has died at 84. (AP Photo/NASA, FILE) ORG XMIT: NY119 (The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE** The original seven Mercury astronauts pose in their spacesuits in this 1961 file photo provided by NASA. From left, first row: Walter Schirra Jr., Donald Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. Back Row: Alan Shepard, Jr., Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA's early space missions, has died, NASA said Thursday, May 3, 2007. He was 84. (AP Photo/FILE) ORG XMIT: NY118 (The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE** The astronauts of the Apollo 7 crew are shown at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in this Oct. 11, 1968 file photo. From left to right are R. Walter Cunningham, Commander Walter Schirra, Jr., and Donn F. Eisele. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA's early space missions, has died, NASA said Thursday, May 3, 2007. He was 84. (AP Photo/NASA, FILE) ORG XMIT: NY114 (The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE** This file photo shows Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. in his Mercury pressure suit with model of Mercury capsule behind him, in an October 1962 file photo. NASA said Thursday, May 3, 2007, that Schirra had died at age 84. (AP Photo/NASA, File) ORG XMIT: NY122 (The Spokesman-Review)
This Dec.1965 photo released by NASA was taken by Gemini VII crew members during NASA's successful first rendezvous mission between two Gemini spacecraft, Gemini VII and Gemini VI, and shows Gemini VI in orbit 160 miles (257 km) above Earth. Inside Gemini VI were astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center) ORG XMIT: WXSC305 (The Spokesman-Review)
Former Mercury astronauts, from left, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra and Scott Carpenter stand together before the start of a news conference at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998. The three former astronauts will be on hand to watch former Mercury astronaut John Glenn take part in the scheduled liftoff of the Space Shuttle Discovery Thursday, Oct. 29. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Marta Lavandier / The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE** The remaining four of the original "Mercury Seven," from left, Gordon Cooper, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, and John Glenn, pose while the colors are presented during a memorial service for the first American in Space, Alan Shepard, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, in this Aug 1, 1998 file photo. NASA said Thursday, May 3, 3007, that former Mercury 7 astronaut Wally Schirra has died at 84. (AP Photo/Michael Stravato, FILE) ORG XMIT: NY121 (Michael Stravato / The Spokesman-Review)
FILE--The original seven Mercury astronauts are shown during training at NASA Langley Research Center in this March 22, 1971 file photo in their flight suits. From left, Lt. M. Scott Carpenter, Capt. Gordon Cooper, Col. John H. Glenn Jr., Capt. Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Lt. Comdr. Walter Schirra, Lt. Comdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Capt. Donald K. "Deke" Slayton. Shepard, one of the revered original seven Mercury astronauts died Tuesday night, July 21, 1998 at Community Hospital near Monterey, Calif. He was 74. (AP Photo/Nasa) (The Spokesman-Review)
(NY19-June 13)--Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, one of America's original astronauts, died of cancer at 69 early Sunday in his sleep at home in League City, Tx. Slayton, pictured second left, with fellow Project Mercury astronauts, from left, Carpenter, Glenn, Grissom, Shepard and Schirra following the 1962 mission, was an original Mercury Seven astronaut, but was grounded by an irregular heartbeat. His first and only flight was during the 1975 historic joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz space mission. (AP Photo (The Spokesman-Review)
**FILE*** This October 20, 1968 file photo released by NASA shows Apollo 7 Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., as he looks out the rendezvous window in front of the Commander's station on the ninth day of the Apollo 7 Earth Orbital Mission. Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA's early space missions, has died, NASA said Thursday. He was 84. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, FILE) ORG XMIT: NY120 (The Spokesman-Review)
Apollo Astronauts Captain Wally Schirra, left, commander of Apollo 7, and Captain Jim Lovell, commander of the heroic Apollo 13 mission, present a thumbs up sign as they sit on an operational cutaway command module of the actual Apollo 13 space capsule displayed Thursday, July 6, 1995, at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif. The occasion marked the debut of the studio's new summer attraction, "The Making of Apollo 13," the motion picture starring Tom Hanks as Captain Lovell.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Damian Dovarganes / The Spokesman-Review)