Astronaut Walter Cunningham, member of first crewed Apollo flight, dies at 90

Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 7 mission in this October 1968 NASA handout photo. – Photo: NASA/Handout via Reuters

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in Nasa's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90.

Nasa confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement but did not include its cause. His family said through a spokesman, Jeff Carr, that Cunningham died in a hospital "from complications of a fall, after a full and complete life.”