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Apollo 7 Launch

Liftoff of Apollo 7
Image Credit: NASA/JSC
Published: July 9, 2018
Historical Date: October 11, 1968

Apollo 7 lifts off from Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 A.M., EDT. The astronauts aboard, for the first manned lunar orbital mission, are Astronauts Walter M. Schirra,Jr. Commander; Donn F. Eisele, Command Module Pilot; and Walter Cunningham, Lunar Module Pilot. Original photo number was KSC-68PC-185.

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