On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham.
This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier. NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was really more of a test flight. Though the spacecraft seemed to work alright, the crew got a little snippy during their 11 days in space. First they suffered from motion sickness after launch, then Schirra came down with a cold, and the crew was constantly arguing with mission control and each other. None of the Apollo 7 astronauts went back to space after that.
This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier. NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was really more of a test flight. Though the spacecraft seemed to work alright, the crew got a little snippy during their 11 days in space. First they suffered from motion sickness after launch, then Schirra came down with a cold, and the crew was constantly arguing with mission control and each other. None of the Apollo 7 astronauts went back to space after that.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schera,
00:08Don Eisel, and Walter Cunningham. This was the first mission of the Apollo program
00:12that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program
00:16after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier.
00:20NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was really more of a
00:24test flight. Though the spacecraft seemed to work alright, the crew got a little snippy
00:28during their 11 days in space. First they suffered from motion sickness after launch,
00:32then Schera came down with a cold, and the crew was constantly arguing with mission
00:36control and each other. None of the Apollo 7 astronauts went back to space after that.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
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