Introduction
Schira is born in a aviation world of Hackensack in New Jersey, New Jersack, has served as a pilot in Canada during the First World War. After the war, I got into a flying tourist actor; the mother of Schira was a flight tour wing walking special technique. When Schila was 15 years old, he began to fly his father's plane. Schira is a first-class grade boy army of the 36th team of New Jersey.
Participation in the Second World War
Schila graduated from the UJ Du Du Teguant High School, in 1941, the New Jersey Technical College, then Schila added US Navy School and graduated in 1945. He was appointed as a US naval official, served in the USS Alaska battles in the last few months of the Second World War. After the end of the war, he participated in the training in Nas PenSacola and became a pilot, and then joined the aviation carrier battle squad.
Participation in North Korea War
After the outbreak of the North Korean War, Schira was sent to South Korea as a US Air Force exchange pilot. At the time, he took the 136 bombing flying leader, followed by the action officials of the 154 combat bomber dividing the fleet. Between 1951 and 1952, he implemented 90 flight fighting mission, mainly using F-84 Thunder injection fighters. His record includes hitting a and damaged two MiG-15 fighters. Schila received a flying excellent cross medal and the Air Force Medal with an Oak Foreign Medal as a service in the Korean War.
he served as a test franchisher after returning to China. In the China Lake Sea and Air Weapons Test Site, Schira tested the weapon system such as the snake empty spray fighter and F7U-3 short arrow injection fighter. He became a flying counselor and a female vector, he returned to his testing ahead, responsible for assessing the F-4 ghost fighter in the Navy service.
The fifth space of the United States
April 2, 1959, Schira is selected as one of the seven astronauts in the United States. He participated in the Mercury Plan and was allocated to the special field of intervention of life and maintaining systems.
October 3, 1962, Schira became a fifth American American. He drives Mercury No. 8 (Sigs 7) surround the earth's six-turn, the mission lasts for 9 hours, 13 minutes and 11 seconds, the speed of the space capsule record is 17,557 miles per hour, and the height of the 175 mile. The space cabin landing in the four miles of the Pacific replacement ship.
December 15, 1965, Schira entered the space again, in his second space journey, he and Tomstade drove the Gemini 6A, on the track with astronaut Frank Shuangzi Constellation 7, Paman and James Ruwil. This is the first time the spacecraft will be in space, however, this is only a test, and the two space compartments are actually unable to connect. The next day, the Gemini 6A is landing in the Atlantic, and the Gemini No. 7 remains in space to continue its 14-day.
October 11, 1968, Schira became the first astronaut in the first space. He served as a commander of Apollo 7 in his last space flight. Since Apollo No. 1, after the test, Apollo No. 7 is the first aerospace machine in Apollo plans. Astronauts with Schira, the astronauts, including Tang Esli and Walter Connone. They spent 11 days on the earth track, performing a connection exercise and carrying out the TV screen live broadcast.
Dippled
During the mission of Apollo, Schira had a cold, and it is perhaps the most famous cold event in the history of the NASA. He is in the flight surgery. With the doctor's instruction, he took Actifed cold medicine to relieve his discomfort. A few years later, he became a spokesperson of Actifed and appeared in the TV advertisement to advertise the product.
During the later Apollo mission, he served as a news consultant, often received interviews in the CBS news program by Walter Cronkite.
Schila flight records totaled 4,577 hours of flight time, of which 295 hours 15 points are in space, 267 records in the mother carriage.
May 3, 2007, Schira was a heart attack, dying at the Scripps Green Hospital of La Jolla, California, at the age of 84.