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Walter Cunningham

1932 - 2023

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Cunningham is the 89th most popular astronaut (down from 49th in 2019), the 3,600th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,564th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Walter Cunningham ranks 89 out of 556. Before him are Vladimir Shatalov, Vladimir Aksyonov, Vyacheslav Zudov, Leonid Popov, Kalpana Chawla, and Aleksei Gubarev. After him are Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Vladimir Lyakhov, Stuart Roosa, Yury Romanenko, Yuri Artyukhin, and Scott Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Walter Cunningham ranks 177. Before him are Jacques Roubaud, Boris Shakhlin, Predrag Matvejević, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Chea Sim, and Bronisław Geremek. After him are Henri Schwery, Nichelle Nichols, Miloslav Vlk, Richard Lester, Hassan Al-Turabi, and John Hillerman. Among people deceased in 2023, Walter Cunningham ranks 158. Before him are Lance Reddick, Robert Blake, Inna Churikova, Carla Bley, Ferran Olivella, and Juanita Castro. After him are Yuri Manin, María Kodama, Petar Nadoveza, Luboš Kohoutek, Ken Block, and Vera Krepkina.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter Cunningham ranks 3,600 out of 20,380. Before him are Rhea Perlman (1948), Octavia Spencer (1972), Andy Williams (1927), Annie Oakley (1860), Doris Hart (1925), and Tommy Mottola (1949). After him are Tom Wilson (1931), Edmond O'Brien (1915), Machine Gun Kelly (1990), John Carney (1956), Victoria Woodhull (1838), and Doug Jones (1954).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Walter Cunningham ranks 51. Before him are Judith Resnik (1949), Sally Ride (1951), Ken Mattingly (1936), Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Susan Helms (1958), and Dick Scobee (1939). After him are Stuart Roosa (1933), Scott Carpenter (1925), Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Douglas G. Hurley (1966), and Gregory Jarvis (1944).

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