Cunningham was part of the crew for the first human test flight of the new Apollo spacecraft, which would see a dozen astronauts land on the lunar surface from 1969 to 1972.
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died aged 90.
Their mission was the first human test flight of the new Apollo spacecraft, which would see a dozen astronauts land on the lunar surface from 1969 and 1972. He was the last surviving member of the crew after mission commander Walter Schirra and command module pilot Donn Eisele died in 2007 and 1987 respectively.
Blasting off on 11 October 1968, Apollo 7 marked the resumption of NASA's lunar spaceflight program 21 months after the fire that killed all three members of the Apollo 1 crew - Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee - during a ground-based launch rehearsal in late January 1967.
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