1968 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Apollo 7
successSaturn IB | Apollo 7
The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. Their mission was Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) with a crew on board.
Overview
- Date / time
- October 11, 1968 at 03:02 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 34
- Mission
- Apollo 7
- Mission type
- Human Exploration
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit