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Oct 11, 2018 · A ground-based landing could endanger the crew because the seats in the Apollo command module didn’t have extra padding that was installed in later missions.
Oct 11, 2018 · But the biggest factor was illness. The crew of Apollo 7 had suffered some space sickness – a new one for space travel and very likely caused by being able to move about the capsule.
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The rendezvous demonstrated that even without radar data, an Apollo command module pilot could find and rescue the crew of a crippled lunar module trapped in a low, errant orbit.
Apollo 7 (October 11–22, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA 's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that had killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967.
Jul 8, 2015 · On Apollo 7, all 8 firing attempts were nearly perfect. On the first attempt, the crew had a real surprise. In contrast to the smooth liftoff of the Saturn, the blast from the SM engine jolted the astronauts, causing Schirra to yell, “Yabadabadoo!,” like cartoon character Fred Flintstone.
Oct 22, 2018 · Apollo 7, with astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard, splashed down on October 22, 1968, ending a highly successful engineering test flight. The landing occurred in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Bermuda.
Jan 3, 2023 · WASHINGTON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968 on the inaugural crewed Apollo mission that paved the way for the first human...
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