Apollo 7 had received the medal twice before, for his Mercury and Gemini missions). Therefore, NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin decided to belatedly award the medals to the crew in October 2008, "[f]or exemplary performance in meeting all the Apollo 7 mission objectives and more on the first manned Apollo mission, paving the way for the first flight to the Moon on Apollo 8 and the first manned lunar landing on Apollo 11." Only Cunningham was still alive at the time; Eisele's widow accepted his medal, and Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders accepted Schirra's. Other Apollo astronauts, including Neil Armstrong, Buzz
Harry S. Toy Harry S. Toy Harry S. Toy (1892–September 9, 1955) was an American politician, prosecutor, and judge. He served as Wayne County Prosecutor (1930-1935), Michigan Attorney General (1935), and a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1935-1937). From 1947 to 1950, he was the police commissioner of Detroit. Both as a prosecutor and as police commissioner, Toy subscribed to McCarthyism and sought to root out and destroy communism, which Toy blamed for labor activism and various societal ills. He planned to run for Governor of Michigan, but died of a heart attack at age 63 in Detroit. In November 1936, Toy,