Usage examples of "schirra".
Somehow it was seeing that eighty-foot silver cylinder drift around like a toy that brought home to Schirra the strangeness of his new environment.
That was the first time it had occurred to Schirra to wonder how it would feel, when his own time came.
The voice was clipped, even, but Schirra could hear anxiety in its heavy tones.
The air over the cities was hazy with industrial gases, and Schirra could see bridges across the bays, stitchings of stone and iron.
The whole population of the Earth, to somewhere close to the Permian-Triassic boundary, from what Schirra remembered of his high school geology.
Moved by little green men from beyond the sky doors, Schirra supposed, to get them away from the devastation of the war.
I knew those seven faces as well as an earlier generation of space nuts had known the faces of Al Shepard, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter.
On another wall was a color photograph of Israel taken by the American astronaut, Wally Schirra, from an Apollo spacecraft.
Right after the lift-off he said to Wally Schirra, who was serving as the capcom, "Feels good, buddy… All systems go.
This time Schirra nudged it around manually, using only the low thrusters, the five-pound thrusters, of the fly-by-wire system.
Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, and Deke Slayton lived in a rather sad-looking housing development on the other side of the Newport News airport.
Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper, and then Al Shepard and Wally Schirra, would discover Jim Rathmann.