Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at age 90

He was one of three aboard the 1968 11-day mission that garnered an Emmy award for live reports beamed from Earth orbit

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa's Apollo program, has died. He was 90.

A Nasa spokesman, Bob Jacobs, confirmed Cunningham's death but did not immediately provide further details. Cunningham's wife, Dot Cunningham, said in a statement that he died on Tuesday but did not say where or provide a cause of death.