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Last surviving astronaut from NASA's 1968 Apollo 7 mission, Walter Cunningham, dead at 90

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Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo programme, has died. He was 90. NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs confirmed Cunningham's death to The Associated Press but did not immediately provide further details. Cunningham's wife, Dot Cunningham, said in a statement that he died Tuesday but did not say where or provide a cause of death.