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 …

Jul 8, 2015 · The voyagers were picked up by helicopter and deposited on the deck of the U.S. Navy’s recovery ship USS Essex. Apollo 7 accomplished what it set out to do – qualifying the CSM and …

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 …

Oct 11, 2018 · After 20 months of congressional hearings, political fallout and a spacecraft redesign, three new astronauts prepared for a mission dubbed Apollo 7: Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter...

Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo flight and featured the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle. This was the first manned launch from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 34, the site of the …

Oct 11, 2025 · Apollo 7, crewed by Walter Schirra Jr., Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham, represented the first manned American spaceflight 21 months after the Apollo 1 fatal accident.

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo launch, was an Earth-orbital mission whose purpose was to check out all the systems before a lunar mission could be attempted.

Feb 20, 2025 · Apollo 7 launched on 11 October 1966, the first U.S. three-man space mission, commanded by Captain Walter M. Schirra Jr., USN. Major Ronnie Walter Cunningham (USMCR) …

Oct 12, 2018 · Apollo 7 was the first crewed spaceflight of the Apollo program. On 11 Oct 1968, Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham blasted into Earth orbit atop a Saturn IB rocket.

Apollo 7, the first Apollo mission with a human crew, was launched on October 11, 1968, for an Earth orbital mission.