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Apollo 7 logo on beta cloth, 9 x 9 inches (229 x 229 mm), INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Flown on Apollo 7 - Wally Schirra." One of the original Mercury Seven, Schirra was Gus Grissom's backup as commander of Apollo 1, but after the disaster that killed Grissom, White and Chaffee, the program's numbering system was changed, and the next mission became Apollo 7. Schirra, along with Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham, orbited the Earth for 11 days in October 1968 to test the Apollo CSM. He famously developed a head cold, which Eisele also caught, leading to a post-NASA career plugging Actifed cold remedy on television.