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The crew of Soyuz 11 died after undocking from space station Salyut 1 after a three-week stay. A cabin vent valve construction defect caused it to open at service module separation. The recovery team found the crew dead. These three are, as of 2025, the only human fatalities in space (above 100 kilometers (330,000 ft)). [4] [5]
Cunningham was one of three astronauts aboard the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, an 11-day spaceflight that beamed live television broadcasts as they orbited Earth, paving the way for the moon landing ...
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 ...
Apollo 7: 22 October 1968 Apollo 7: First three person U.S. crew. Launched over 20 months after Apollo 1 fatalities. 29 Georgy Beregovoy: 26 October 1968 Soyuz 3: 30 October 1968 Soyuz 3: Failed to dock with uncrewed Soyuz 2. 30 Frank Borman (2) Jim Lovell (3) William Anders: 21 December 1968 Apollo 8: 27 December 1968 Apollo 8: First crewed ...
The remaining six members of this group were selected for their first space flights on Apollo: Roger B. Chaffee – Selected as Pilot (third seat) on Apollo 1, was killed with Grissom and White in the fire. Donn F. Eisele – Flew second seat on Apollo 7. R. Walter Cunningham – Flew third seat on Apollo 7.
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut. As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 astronauts to fly to the Moon, and one of 12 people to fly to the Moon without landing.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Four astronauts from four countries arrived at the Space Coast on Sunday ahead of this week’s planned launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.
The MOL program was canceled in 1969 and Overmyer was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 7, where his first assignment was engineering development on the Skylab Program from 1969 to 1971. From 1971–72, he was a support crew member for Apollo 17 and was the launch capsule communicator (CAPCOM).