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Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. a7168-22
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. a7168-22
R. Walter Cunningham
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. a7168-22
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Audio/Visual Archives Collection, Photograph No. a7168-22

R. Walter Cunningham

United States, born 1932
U.S. Naval Aviator (1951-1952)
U.S. Marine (1953-1975)
Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 7 (1968)

R. Walter Cunningham enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1951 before transfering to the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot in 1953. Cunningham later joined NASA's Apollo program in 1963, serving as a lunar module pilot for the Apollo 7 (1968).
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