| Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | March 16 1932 Creston, Iowa |
| Other occupation | Fighter Pilot |
| Rank | Colonel, USMC |
| Space time | 10d 20h 08m |
| Selection | 1963 NASA Group |
| Missions | Apollo 7 |
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Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham (born March 16, 1932) is a retired American astronaut. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa. After graduating from Venice High School (where he now has a building named for him) in California, Cunningham joined the U.S. Navy in 1951 and began flight training in 1952. He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956. Cunningham received his B.A. in 1960 and his M.A. in 1961, both in physics, from the University of California at Los Angeles. He then worked as a scientist for the Rand Corporation. Cunningham was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. On October 11 1968, he occupied the lunar module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7. He left NASA in 1971, graduated from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1974, and worked as a business man and investor in a number of private ventures. In 1977, he published The All-American Boys, a reminiscence of his astronaut days. Cunningham was also a major contributor and foreword-writer for the 2007 space history book In the Shadow of the Moon Currently he is a radio personality and public speaker. In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Cunningham was played by Fredric Lehne.
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Walter Cunningham is also the name of a character from To Kill a Mockingbird
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