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Document 261633

WALTER M. SCHIRRA. Comprises: (1) TLS: "Walter M. Schirra", 1p, 8½x11. Rancho Santa Fe, California, 2002 May 3. To Who it may concern. In full: "I, Walter Schirra, attest to the fact that this is my original Flight Training Suit, worn by me while training for the Apollo 7 space mission." Fine condition. (2) The one-piece light blue training suit worn by Schirra. It zips completely down the front and has two original patches: Schirra's U.S. Navy leather ID patch on its right and the colorful cloth Apollo 7 patch on its left. There are a number of small circular oil stains on the seat, otherwise, the suit is in fine condition. Apollo 7 was the first manned flight of the Apollo spacecraft, with astronauts Walter Schirra, Jr., Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. The primary objectives of the Earth orbiting mission were to demonstrate Command and Service Module (CSM), the performance of the crew, launch vehicle and mission support facilities and to demonstrate CSM rendezvous capability. The October 11-22, 1968 flight was the first since the January 27, 1967 Apollo I fire that killed astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee. The first live TV transmissions from a piloted U.S. spacecraft were made from Apollo 7. Two items.

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