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Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsWalter Cunningham, a civilian astronaut who helped reignite America’s push to the Moon following the tragicfirst crewed Apollo flight
But at heart, Cunningham was still an irreverent adventurer, explorer, and, by his own unalloyed admission, someone who kept both eyes focused on the future and seldom dwelt in the past. . “NASA will always remember his contributions to our nation’s space program and sends our condolences to the Cunningham family.”Born March 16, 1932, in Creston, Iowa, Cunningham grew up in an agricultural community located at the crest of the railroad linking the Mississippi and Missouri river basins.
By 1961, having resigned active duty, married, and now serving as a Marine Corps reservist, Cunningham had earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles. “Without a college education,” he later quipped, “I wasn’t going to go very far.
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