Wally Schirra

Wally Schirra‘s source of wealth comes from being a astronaut. How much money is Wally Schirra worth at the age of 101 and what’s his real net worth now?

As of 2024, Wally Schirra’s net worth is under review.

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Wally Schirra (born March 12, 1923) is famous for being astronaut. He currently resides in Hackensack. The first person to travel into space three times and the only person to fly in all of America’s first three space programs.

Wally Schirra is a Pisces and was born in The Year of the Pig

Life

Wally Schirra was born in Hackensack on Monday, March 12, 1923 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 101 years old and is a Pisces. Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007), (Capt, USN), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space. He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962, becoming the fifth American, and the ninth human, to ride a rocket into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module. He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing missions. He flew on Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A, and Apollo 7.

He held the rank of First Class in Troop 36 as a Boy Scout. Wally Schirra is a member of Richest Celebrities and Astronauts.