Wally Schirra partially handwritten and signed bank check, dated June 18, 1983, measuring approximately 8.5 x 3.25 inches. Drawn on Schirra Enterprises letterhead (Capt. W. M. Schirra, U.S.N. Ret.), payable to Mountain Bell in the amount of $25.40. The check is completed in Schirra’s hand and signed at lower right, “Walter Schirra.”
The reverse bears period bank processing and endorsement stamps, including United Bank of Denver markings dated June 24, 1983, confirming contemporaneous negotiation. The check shows expected light handling wear, toning, and standard bank processing impressions.
Wally Schirra( March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007) was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put human beings into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft, he nicknamed Sigma 7. At the time of his mission in Sigma 7, Schirra became the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program.
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