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Apollo 7 had delivered NASA from its trial by fire—it was the first small step down a path that would lead another crew, nine months later, to the Sea of Tranquility." [28] The Apollo 7 crew is debriefed, October 23, 1968. General Sam Phillips, the Apollo Program Manager, said at the time, "Apollo 7 goes into my book as a perfect mission. We ...
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo missions 8 and 10–17 were the nine crewed missions to the Moon. Apollo 4–6 and AS-201 and AS-202 were uncrewed, while AS-203 is considered a test flight. The Apollo program included three other crewed missions: Apollo 1 (AS-204) did not launch and its crew died in a ground-based capsule fire, while Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were low ...
NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement but did not include its cause. Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live ...
Cunningham during the Apollo 7 mission In October 1963, Cunningham was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA . On October 11, 1968, he occupied the Lunar Module Pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7 , the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission. [ 1 ]
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Eisele was a part of a group of Apollo astronauts to be inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983. [19] He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997. [20] In 2008, NASA posthumously awarded Eisele the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his Apollo 7 mission. [21]
Frank Borman, commander of the December 1968 Apollo 8 mission that was the first to fly around the moon, died Nov. 7 at age 95. EAA issues statement on death of Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman ...