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Splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean
- The mission ended 22 Oct 1968 with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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.
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.
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- Astronauts Were Unhappy from The start.
- Wally Schirra Was Shaken by The Death of A Fellow Astronaut.
- A Bad Head Cold Made Matters worse.
The lessons from Apollo 7 continue to resonate a half century on as both NASA and private space companies plan for human missions back to the moon and perhaps Mars. Nearly any technical problem can be solved when crew and ground controllers cooperate, but as Apollo 7 showed, disagreements can turn a mission upside down, experts say. “The crew was g...
Schirra was badly shaken by the death of his friend and neighbor Gus Grissom in the Apollo 1 fire. The safety of his crew was his prime concern and outweighed nearly all other tasks that NASA planned for the Apollo 7 flight, according to Andrew Chaikin, a NASA historian and author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of The Apollo Astronauts. In the a...
Controllers and crew agreed that Apollo 7 would not take off if the winds at Cape Canaveral were blowing onshore, but on the day of the launch, Oct. 11, 1968, the launch manager decided to go ahead anyway. Schirra wasn’t happy, and his grumpiness got worse after he woke up the first day with a terrible head cold. In the zero-gravity environment of ...
Apollo 7 was the first test of the command and service module with a crew. The crew orbited the Earth 163 times and spent 10 days and 20 hours in space. This mission was the first opportunity to test the first of the new Block II spacecraft (CSM 101) in orbit.
Jul 8, 2015 · The prime crew of the first manned Apollo space mission, Apollo 7 (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205), left to right, are astronauts Donn F. Eisele, command module pilot, Walter M. Schirra Jr., commander; and Walter Cunningham, lunar module pilot.
Oct 11, 2018 · However, Apollo 1 never left the ground and ended in tragedy on January 27, 1967 as astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a launch pad accident during a...
Apollo 7 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Pad 34 at 11:02 Eastern Daylight Time, October 11, 1968. Its ride to orbit on the Saturn IB booster was normal and all systems behaved as expected.
