Recovery activities of the Apollo 7 Command Module and crew. The helicopter is from USS ESSEX CVS-9.
Date: October 22, 1968
NASA ID: S68-49701, S68-49643, S68-49771
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came across this pic of Apollo 7 from the San Diego Air and Space Museum archives I've never seen before and felt the need to share
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Apollo 7 astronauts Don Eisele, Wally Schirra & Water Cunningham stand by Launch Pad 34 in preparation for their Oct, 1968 spaceflight. The 10 day, 20 hour mission set the stage for Apollo 8’s moon shot 2 months later. A7 saw Schirra become the only astronaut to fly in all 3 of NASA’s major space programs of the ‘60s; Project Mercury, Gemini & Apollo. Backup crew for A7 were Tom Stafford, John Young & Gene Cernan; the trio would go on to pilot Apollo 10. A7 was the first crewed mission since the Jan 1967 Apollo 1 tragedy.
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Launch of Apollo 7 l October 11, 1968 l the first crewed flight in Apollo program
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AG 7 Space Pen by Paul Fisher
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Godspeed and Rest in Peace Walter Cunningham.
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RIP Walter Cunningham, chosen in 1963 as one of "The Fourteen" and was LMP on Apollo 7. He spent a total of 10 days 20 hrs and 8 mins aboard the first manned Apollo mission to launch successfully in 1967.
Source: Wikipedia
Credit: NASA
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"The morning sun reflects on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft at an altitude of 120 nautical miles above Earth. Most of Florida peninsula appears as a dark silhouette. This photograph was made during the spacecraft's 134th revolution of Earth, some 213 hours and 19 minutes after liftoff."
Date: October 20, 1968
NASA ID: AS07-08-1933
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October 11, 1968: Apollo 7 launches into space
Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission and NASA's return to flight following the Apollo 1 disaster in January 1967. It carried a crew of three— Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham— on an 11-day test of the Apollo spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
Celebrate Apollo 7's 55th anniversary with 10 fun facts about the mission!
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us: we're not judgemental
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(artemis and apollo ily sm)
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