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Potential overheating of fuel cells
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- Most serious was the potential overheating of fuel cells, which might have failed when the spacecraft was too far from Earth to return on batteries, even if fully charged.
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Oct 11, 2018 · 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...
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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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.
The deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee in the January 1967 launchpad fire forced NASA and contractor North American Rockwell to scrutinize and refine the design of ...
Aug 3, 2019 · NASA Documentary: The Flight of Apollo 7 (14:18 WMV) The Apollo Journey Begins. Day 1, part 1: Launch and Ascent to Earth Orbit. Day 1, part 2: CSM/S-IVB Orbital Operations. Day 1, part 3: S-IVB Takeover Demonstration, Separation, and First Phasing Maneuver. Day 1, part 4: Remainder (preliminary) Day 2 (preliminary) Day 3 (preliminary)
Oct 22, 2018 · From the friction of re-entry, a sheath of ionized gases formed around the capsule, temporarily blocking radio communications with the crew, who experienced about three Gs, or three times the force of Earth’s gravity, during the rapid deceleration.