The last surviving member of the first mission to broadcast live TV from space has died at the age of 90.
The ability to dock and rendezvous in space was tested on Apollo 7. The crew won an award for their work.
Less than a year later, Apollo 11 was able to land on the moon.
Cunningham was an "integral to our Moon landing's program success", according to NASA.
He died at a hospital in Houston from natural causes, according to a family representative.
"We would like to express our immense pride in the life that he lived, and our deep gratitude for the man that he was," the Cunningham family said in a statement.
The world has lost a true hero.
Cunningham graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles with a masters degree in physics. He was selected for the first manned spaceflight in the Apollo programme while working as a civilian.
He was a lunar module pilot for Apollo 7 with two other people.
He retired as a colonel after flying 54 missions in a fighter jet over Korea.
He hosted a radio show after retiring from Nasa. He became an outspoken denier of climate change despite the fact that humans have contributed to warmer average temperatures.
He talked about his mindset when he was anastrologer in an interview.
He said that he's one of those people that never looked back.
He said that he kept his nose to the grindstone and wanted to do the best he could.
I always look to the future. I don't go back in time.
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