The last living astronaut on the first successful Apollo manned space mission, Walter Cunningham, has died at the age of 90.. It is reported by The Guardian with reference to the representative of the American space agency Bob Jacobs..

Neither Jacobs nor Cunningham's wife gave any details of his death..

Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.. It was an eleven-day flight during which live broadcasts were made from orbit.. The mission prepared the base for the moon landing, which took place in less than a year: Apollo 11 landed humans on the moon in July 1969..

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He worked alongside US Navy Captain Walter Schirro and Major Donn Eisel.. NASA stated that all three completed their mission almost perfectly..

Apollo 7 astronauts received a special Emmy Award for their daily TV reports from orbit, during which they fooled around, showed humorous signs and told earthlings about space flights.

It was NASA's first manned space mission since the death of three Apollo 1 astronauts in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967..

Born in Creston, Iowa, Cunningham attended high school in California and enlisted in the Navy in 1951.. He served as a Marine Corps pilot in Korea.

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The future astronaut also received a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles..

After a career at NASA, Cunningham worked in engineering, business, and investment, and became a public speaker and radio host.. He wrote a memoir about his career in the book All American Boys..

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Although he never participated in other space flights, he remained a fan of space exploration..