Mercury Astronaut Dies
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RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (AP) – Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on all three of NASA’s early space missions, has died, NASA said Thursday. He was 84.
