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I grew up following the Gemini and the Apollo space programs......Was watching Walter Cronkite with Armstrong took those first steps on the moon.......

Last Surviving Astronaut From First Manned Apollo Mission Dead At 90

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving member of the Apollo 7 mission and a Korean War veteran, has died in a Houston hospital at 90. 

According to a family spokesman, Jeff Carr, Cunningham died “from complications of a fall, after a full and complete life.” 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/last-surv...pn-EUTbujc

Interesting tidbit about Apollo 7 is it marked the end of the three astronauts’s careers. They developed colds while in orbit and became quarrelsome and defiant with Mission Control. While all three were slated to fly later Apollo missions, especially Wally Schirra, none ever flew into space again.