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Old 9th January 2023 | 19:14
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wiggy
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Widely reported elsewhere as being a nice guy..as I'm sure you know there's a large body of opinion that despite the flight being a technical success he was deemed guilty by association as a result of Schirra's behaviour (who was leaving NASA so probably didn't give a stuff) and as result ever got a second flight.

The NASA hierarchy eventually set the record straight in 2008 but it was a bit late in the day for Cunningham's spaceflight career:

First Apollo flight crew last to be honored | collectSPACE

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