Apollo 7: The NASA Mission Reports

Apogee Books Space Series #11

by Robert Godwin (Editor)

Includes the Apollo 7 Press kit, the Pre-launch Mission Operation Report, the Post-launch Mission Operation Report, and the Crew Technical Debriefing.

272 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

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Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo mission launched on a Saturn 1-B rocket and from pad 34 at the Kennedy Space Center. Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Command and Service Module. The crew orbited the Earth 163 times and spent 10 days and 20 hours in space.

Lunar Module: not flown

Command and Service Module: Apollo Seven

Crew:
Walter M. Schirra, Jr., commander
Donn F. Eisele, command module pilot
Walter Cunningham, lunar module pilot

Launch: October 11, 1968
16:02:45 UT
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 34 (Saturn 1B)

Mission Duration: 260 hours 9 minutes 3 seconds

Returned to Earth: October 22, 1968
splashdown 11:11:48 UT (7:11:48 a.m. EDT)

Retrieval site: Atlantic Ocean 27° 32' N, 64° 04' W

Retrieval ship: U.S.S. Essex

Highlights/Notes:

First U.S. three man mission

First flight of Block II Apollo Spacecraft.

First flight of the Apollo space suits.

First flight with full crew support equipment.

First live national TV from space during a manned space flight.