NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful crewed Apollo mission.
Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F.
Eisele and Lunar Module pilot R. Walter Cunningham.
Watch: NASA's Video, The Flight of Apollo 7, October 11, 1968 | NASA Archives
From the Cosmosphere channel.
Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — Apollo 7 (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.
