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Walter Cunningham |
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Walter Cunningham |
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| Walt Cunningham has thirty-five years of
diversified management experience accumulated during
separate careers in the United States Marine Corps, with
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and
private industry, where he has been a venture capitalist
for the past twelve years. Since 1971, he has been in private business in Houston, Texas. His experience includes the presidency of two engineering companies, each with extensive overseas operations, Vice President of Operations for one of the largest commercial property developers in the U. S. and the presidency of an interactive voice response company. He has been involved in the start-up and early stage development of more than thirty companies and financial institutions. In 1979, he formed The Capital Group to provide certain investment banking and consulting services to entrepreneurs and to address some of the particular needs of foreign investors in the Southwestern region of the United States. Since 1986 he has been the Managing General Partner of The Genesis Fund, an $18.5 million venture capital pool with a portfolio of 25 start up and early stage technology companies. Mr. Cunningham is perhaps best known as America's second civilian Astronaut. During eight years with NASA he contributed to the design, development and testing of all the major operating systems of the Apollo spacecraft, specializing in electric power systems and complex systems analysis. In 1967, he served as a member of the Apollo 203 fire investigation board and in 1968 he orbited the earth 163 times as the pilot of Apollo VII the first manned flight of the Apollo Program. Following the Apollo VII mission, he became Chief of the Skylab Astronauts, where he was involved in the design, development and integration of systems for the largest spacecraft, manned or unmanned, ever placed in orbit, including five manned space modules, two different launch vehicles and fifty-six major scientific experiments. These included the first manned systems utilizing molecular sieves for environmental control, photo?voltaic cells for electrical power and inertial storage devices for attitude control. He began his career in 1951 as a U. S. Marine Corps fighter pilot and presently holds the rank of Colonel, USMCR, Retired. He has 4,500 hours of flying time, including 263 hours in space. He has a Master's Degree in Physics and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Cunningham is a successful business man, as well as an organizer, investor and Director of numerous public and private companies and chairman of the Texas Aerospace Commission. He is author of "The All American Boys," about the human side of the space program, is currently host of Lift-off To Logic, a radio talk show and has been invited to lecture throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He is a civic leader, is listed in all major Who's Whos and is a recipient of numerous national and international honors, including election to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. |
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ASE Collectibles with Walt Cunningham's signature: Posters: II Congress, IV Congress, V Congress, VI Congress, VIII Congress, IX Congress, X Congress |
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