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Walter Cunningham
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American astronaut (1932–2023)
OverviewAI-generated
Walter Cunningham (1932–2023) was an American astronaut, military officer, and fighter pilot. Born Ronnie Walter Cunningham in Creston, he served as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. He was a member of NASA Astronaut Group 3 and worked for NASA. His fields of work included astronautics, science, commerce, and spaceflight.
Cunningham received the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame award and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. He spent 15608 units of time in space. He was educated at Santa Monica College, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard Business School. He spoke English.
As an author, he is credited with five works, including *Apollo*, *River Rivals*, and *The all American boys*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Eric Worrell's Australian Birds and Animals
- River Rivals
- Reasons Why Democrats Will Win the Impeachment Battle
- Apollo
- The all American boys
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
Discography
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 91995
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 101997
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 11999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 21999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 31999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 41999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 51999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 61999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 71999
- Dance Music of Ireland, Vol. 81999
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 21
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,523x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,897x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,458x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Ronnie Walter Cunningham , ( 1932-03-16 ) March 16, 1932, Creston, Iowa , U.S.
- Died
- January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03) (aged 90), Houston , Texas, U.S.
- Resting place
- Texas State Cemetery
- Education
- Santa Monica College ( AS ) University of California, Los Angeles ( BA , MA )
- Spouses
- Lo Ella Irby ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1956 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1989 ) Dorothy League ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1997 )
- Awards
- (see § Awards and honors )
- Rank
- Colonel , USMCR
- Time in space
- 10d 20h 8m
- Selection
- NASA Group 3 (1963)
- Missions
- Apollo 7
- Retirement
- August 1, 1971
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- NASA Astronaut Group 3
- Family name
- Cunningham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Creston
- Place of death
- Houston
- Occupation
- entrepreneur
- Employer
- NASA
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- entrepreneurship
- Sport
- tennis
- Military branch
- United States Marine Corps
- Military rank
- colonel
- Official website
- www.waltercunningham.com
- Image
- Walter Cunningham.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- Walter Cunningham
- date of birth
- 1932-03-16
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- time in space
- 15608
- date of death
- 2023-01-03
- name in native language
- Walter Cunningham
- birth name
- Ronnie Walter Cunningham
- place of burial
- Texas State Cemetery
- member of the crew of
- Apollo 7
- P450
- Apollo 7
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronnie Walter Cunningham (March 16, 1932 – January 3, 2023) was an American astronaut, fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.
Early life, education and military career
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