[DOC] [TLE] Mercury Seven - Wikipedia [PAR] The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by 
NASA on April 9, 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven or... [DOC] [TLE] Project Gemini - Wikipedia [PAR] Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program. It was a United 
States space program that started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. Project Gemini 
was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. The Gemini spacecraft 
carried a two-astronaut crew. ... Ten crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions 
between 1965 and 1966. [DOC] [TLE] Apollo 7 - Wikipedia [PAR] Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States. 
It was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into 
space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of 
Gemini XII in November ... Schirra thus became the only astronaut to fly Mercury, 
Gemini and Apollo... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter and the Controversy Surrounding ... [PAR] Oct 13, 2013 ... Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter was the right man with the right stuff ... to orbit 
the Earth, and is now the only surviving astronaut of his class. ... Wally Schirra 
was the only astronaut to fly all three Apollo-era programs  Mercury, Gemini, ... 
As launch day neared, Carpenter named his spacecraft Aurora 7. [DOC] [TLE] Remembering Gordon Cooper | NASA [PAR] NASA mourns the loss of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper, who rocketed into ... 
A naval aviator, he would go on to fly to the moon twice, aboard Apollo 10 in 
1969 ... The fuel aboard the Agena now would not only aid in maneuvering, it 
would .... the Gemini IXA spacecraft during one of their three rendezvous in Earth 
orbit. [DOC] [TLE] Human Space Flight: A Record of Achievement, 1961-1998 ... [PAR] The history of space flight has seen not only an increase in the numbers of 
people ... Each successive spacecraft, from Mercury through Apollo and the 
Space Shuttle, ... Nine months later, John Glenn became the first American to 
orbit the Earth. ... watching on TV that the United States was now in the space 
flight business. [DOC] [TLE] What Was the Gemini Program? | NASA [PAR] NASA TV; Follow NASA .... The Gemini capsule improved on the Mercury 
spacecraft. ... the Mercury spacecraft could change only the way it was facing in 
its orbit. ... Before the first astronauts flew on it, it launched without a crew so that 
NASA .... On Apollo 9, the crew tested the Apollo moon lander by flying it in Earth 
orbit... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury-Atlas 6 | NASA [PAR] Place a man into Earth orbit, observe his reactions to the space environment and 
safely ... 7" Mercury spacecraft photographs Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. as he 
uses a ... During the flight only two major problems were encountered: (1) a yaw 
... In 1962, Glenn climbed aboard his Mercury capsule (the Friendship 7, seen... [DOC] [TLE] The Gemini Years | NASA [PAR] Now called the Mission Control Center, it continued to be the flight control ... as 
seen from the Gemini XI spacecraft, 850 miles above the Earth on Sept. ... The 
first rendezvous between two orbiting spacecraft occurred only nine months 
earlier. ... But, when Apollo astronauts lift off from the moon, the lunar module was 
set to... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Spacecraft | NASA [PAR] Gemini IV Astronaut Ed White floats in the microgravity of space outside the 
spacecraft ... NASA astronaut Alan Shepard flew aboard a Mercury spacecraft he 
named .... In the mid-1970s, NASA's focus returned to low-Earth orbit with the 
prototype ... In July 1975, a joint mission, called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 
turned into... [DOC] [TLE] Schirra, Stafford and Gemini on Deck | NASA [PAR] Dec 10, 2015 ... Gemini VI command pilot Wally Schirra climbs from his spacecraft after ... Now 70 
years later, the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California ... 
technology development through flights on commercial suborbital launch 
vehicles. ..... becoming the only astronaut to

Question: Now seen as a TV spokesman, he was only astronaut to orbit earth in Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo craft
Answer: Wally Schirra