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Another Of The Seven Gone?

I'm hearing rumors that Wally Schirra died last night.

[Update a couple minutes later]

OK, apparently Keith heard it on CNN as well.

So, Grissom, Slayton, Schirra, Shepard are gone. Besides Glenn, who's still with us?

[googling]

OK, Cooper is dead, so it's just Glenn and Carpenter. They could hold a reunion in a phone booth. And I see that Wikipedia has already updated the Mercury 7 page to reflect Schirra's passing.

[Update at 12:30 PM EDT]

Here's the obit from CNN.

Hadn't thought about that, but it's true, he was the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.

Posted by Rand Simberg at May 03, 2007 09:30 AM
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