
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)


George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

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Wally Schirra shown climbing from the Apollo 7 Command Module
into a recovery raft.
Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission carried out by the U.S. and the
first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra,
Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.