And The First Shall Be Last

First Apollo flight crew last to be honored, Collectspace

“Forty years after flying NASA’s first manned Apollo mission, the crew of Apollo 7 was honored on Friday with the space agency’s highest award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. The presentation at long-last recognized the crew’s contributions to the United States’ first lunar landing program, granting Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham the same award that all of their fellow flown Apollo astronauts received almost four decades earlier.”