Schirra was only three-capsule astronaut (Alamogordo Daily News)

Wally Schirra had flown 90 combat missions in Korea and was a test pilot when, in 1959, he learned NASA was recruiting. “I really was not keenly interested in being an Astronaut at first,” he wrote in “We Seven” (Simon and Schuster/1962), which all original seven Mercury astronauts authored.

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