Astronaut Wally Schirra, fifth American in space, dies at 84 - CNN.com

Astronaut Wally Schirra, fifth American in space, dies at 84 - CNN.com: "Wally Schirra, one of the original astronauts in the Mercury 7 project, died Thursday at age 84, NASA officials said.

Schirra died in California, the officials said. He was the fifth American in space and the third to orbit Earth."