NASA will honor former astronaut Walt Cunningham as an “Ambassador of Exploration,” an award which provides recognition for the astronauts of the space agency’s first manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
On Friday, October 7, at 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT), NASA officials will present Cunningham with the award, a lucite-encased moon rock, at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. He is donating the rock to the museum, which presently displays the Apollo 7 Command Module on loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
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This is too cool! Walt Cunningham’s family lived up the street from us when I was a kid. One of his sisters used to babysit my brother and me and another sister went to the same high school I did. Congratulations Walt Cunningham!