“As I look back on it, it was a job, a challenge, and a task that in the end was very well done.”
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Walter Cunningham
Ronnie Walter Cunningham 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, he was a Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.
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business · American astronaut (1932–2023) · astronaut · military officer · aircraft pilot · fighter pilot · businessperson · physicist · scientist · merchant · entrepreneur · also Walter Cunningham, Ronnie Walter "Walt" Cunningham, Walt Cunningham, Cunningham
Born 16 March 1932 · Died 3 January 2023 · Q372215
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2023· 2 entries
Died 2023-01-03.
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At age 90, from complications resulting from a fall
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2022· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Cunningham joined the Back to Space organization as an Astronaut Consultant with the goal of inspiring the next generation to go to Mars
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2016· 3 entries
“t have landed on the moon before the end of the 1960s.”
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“But that was the fifth of what I”
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2012· 1 entry
And other former astronauts and NASA employees sent a critical letter to the agency highlighting what they believed to be "unproven assertions that man-made carbon dioxide was a major factor in global warming
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2010· 2 entries
Cunningham claimed that the empirical evidence did not support global warming
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Cunningham published a short book titled Global Warming: Facts versus Faith
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2008· 2 entries
Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2008).
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NASA awarded Cunningham the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Apollo 7 mission
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1997· 1 entry
Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame, inducted in 2003
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1983).
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1977· 1 entry
Published The All-American Boys, a reminiscence of his astronaut days
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1974· 1 entry
Cunningham attended Harvard Business School's six-week Advanced Management Program and later worked as a businessman and investor in a number of private ventures
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1968· 1 entry
Occupied the Lunar Module Pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission
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1960· 1 entry
And his Master of Arts degree with distinction in 1961, both in physics, from UCLA
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1958· 1 entry
Studied at Santa Monica College, associate degree (1958).
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1952· 1 entry
And served on active duty as a fighter pilot with the U
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1937· 1 entry
“Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War”
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-03-16.
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