Portrait of Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr. NASA PHOTO NO: S64-31480(CNN) — Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said. He was the only astronaut who flew in three of the nation’s pioneering space programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

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