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Saturn IB | Apollo 7

Saturn IB | Apollo 7

Status: Success  |  Launched: Oct 11, 1968 15:02 UTC

Launch Provider & Rocket

Mission

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.

  • Type: Human Exploration
  • Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Launch Site

  • Pad: Launch Complex 34
  • Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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Program

  • Apollo — The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. (Wikipedia)

Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-08T01:01:54.797344+00:00.