He was one of three space jocks during the 1968 11-day mission that garnered an Emmy award for live reports beamed from Earth orbit
Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day flight that beamed live broadcasts as it orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing less than a year later.Donn F Eisele,
Nasa said Cunningham, Eisele and Schirra flew a near-perfect mission. Their spacecraft performed so well that the agency sent the next crew, during the Apollo 8 mission, to orbit the moon as a prelude to the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa, and attended high school in California before enlisting with the navy in 1951 and serving as a marine corps pilot in Korea, according to Nasa.
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