On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This was ...

Twenty-one months after the deaths of the Apollo 1 crew in a fire during a test on the launchpad, the three men who had originally served as their backup crew - Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and ...

Apollo 7 had marked the first crewed mission of the program in October 1968 after a launchpad fire killed three astronauts in January 1967. Apollo 8’s launch followed a couple of months after Apollo 7 ...

Click to open image viewer. This United States one dollar bill holds the signatures of the three Apollo 7 astronauts (Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham), all on the front ...

Apollo 7 was designated to make the essential test of the Apollo spacecraft before the ambitious lunarorbital mission could be attempted All systems respond perfectly ...