Walter Cunningham's Accomplishments

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According to Space.com, Walter Cunningham and the people of his crew, did not get honored with NASA’s biggest award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission, but they did not get awarded with this award until forty years later. The mission was at 1968, and the crew got the award at Oct 17, 2008. I can connect with him because I usually don’t get recognition if I do something good in the house. According to NASA he majored in physics. I find physics interesting, since it’s the study of how the world works. It’s important to all of us because we live in this world. In academy. In academy, I want to study physics. He started off as a Marine CORP, and learned how to fly planes there. Younger me would have

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