{"id":89077,"date":"2023-01-04T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89077"},"modified":"2023-01-04T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:18:55","slug":"89077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89077","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2023\/01\/04\/Apollo-7-Walter-Cunningham-dies\/5461672797261\/\">Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from NASA&#8217;s famed Apollo 7 mission, died early Tuesday in Houston at age 90, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Administrator\u00a0<a class=\"tpstyle\" title=\"Bill Nelson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Bill_Nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Nelson<\/a>\u00a0confirmed Cunningham&#8217;s death in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/apollo-astronaut-walter-cunningham-dies-at-90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a>. He described the late astronaut as having paved the way for future U.S. space travel as one of three members on Apollo 7, the first successful crewed space flight of NASA&#8217;s Apollo program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"upi-content proper-dynamic-insertion\">&#8220;Walter Cunningham was a fighter pilot, physicist and an entrepreneur &#8212; but above all, he was an explorer,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;NASA will always remember his contributions to our nation&#8217;s space program and sends our condolences to the Cunningham family.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cunningham, along with Donn Eisele and Walter &#8220;Wally&#8221; Schirra, was aboard the 11-day Apollo 7 mission that launched on Oct. 11, 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90. Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from NASA&#8217;s famed Apollo 7 mission, died early Tuesday in Houston at age 90, officials said. NASA Administrator\u00a0Bill Nelson\u00a0confirmed Cunningham&#8217;s death in\u00a0a statement. He described the late astronaut as having paved the way for future U.S. space travel as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89078,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89077\/revisions\/89078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}