| Name: Schirra, Walter | Country: USA | M/F: M | Number of Flights: 3 |
| Space Flights | Launch Date - Rocket No. | Landing Date - Rocket No. |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sigma 7 | October 3, 1962 - Atlas 113D | October 3, 1962 - Atlas 113D |
| 2. Gemini 6A | December 15, 1965 - GLV-6 | December 16, 1965 - GLV-6 |
| 3. Apollo 7 | October 11, 1968 - AS-205 | October 22, 1968 - AS-205 |
| Space Flights | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Delta 7 (Mercury-Atlas 7) (Cancelled) |
Proposed Backup Crew Donald Slayton would have been the second American in orbit. He was replaced by Scott Carpenter due to a medical problem. Delta 7 would have been a three orbit space flight, and the spacecraft was renamed Aurora 7. |
| Aurora 7 (Mercury-Atlas 7) |
Backup Pilot for Aurora 7 Mercury-Atlas 6 used Spacecraft-18 (Aurora 7) |
| 1. Sigma 7 (Mercury-Atlas 8) |
Man & machine in orbit for 9 hours Mercury-Atlas 8 used Spacecraft-16 (Sigma 7) |
| Mercury-Atlas 11 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Backup Crew Mercury-Atlas 11 would have been the third one-day flight using Spacecraft 12B. It was cancelled since the Mercury program was behind schedule. It would have been difficult to fly more than two one-day flights before the mandated end of the Mercury program at the end of 1963. |
| Mercury-Atlas 12 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew Mercury-Atlas 12 would have been the 4th one-day flight. It was removed from the schedule in mid-1962 due to Mercury program delays and budget problems. |
| Gemini 3 (Backup Crew) |
First manned Gemini spaceflight |
| Gemini 6 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew The Gemini 6 mission was delayed and re-planned after the launch failure of the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle 6 on October 25, 1965. |
| 2. Gemini 6A | Rendezvous with Gemini 7 |
| Apollo 1 / AS-204 (Cancelled) |
Second Backup Crew for the first Apollo C mission The crew died when a fire swept through the Apollo CSM-102 spacecraft during a preflight test for the Apollo AS-204 mission, one month before launch. The mission was renamed Apollo 1 at the request of Grissom's widow. |
| Apollo AS-205 (Cancelled) |
Proposed Prime Crew for the second Apollo C mission The second planned solo test space flight of the Apollo command and service modules was officially cancelled on December 22, 1966 when the flight was seen as unnecessary. Apollo 7 completed the objectives of the Apollo C mission after the Apollo 1 fire. The prime crew became the new backup crew of the Apollo AS-204 mission after the Apollo AS-205 mission was cancelled. |
| 3. Apollo 7 | First manned flight of Apollo Command & Service Modules in Earth orbit (CSM-101) |
| Return to Master List | American Astronauts | Three Spaceflights |
| Mercury Program | Gemini Program | Apollo Program |
Updated - June 10, 2006