Apollo 7
October 11, 1968
Apollo 7 launched this morning. For the first time since the fire twenty-one months ago, American astronauts are in space. Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunningham rode a Saturn IB into orbit and the spacecraft worked. I watched from home. I was not entirely certain, until I saw the…
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October 11, 1968
Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham are in space right now. The first crewed Apollo mission launched this morning and it looks good.
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Apollo 1
January 15, 1967
The crew of the first Apollo mission has been named for months: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. Their spacecraft is AS-204. They're scheduled to launch in February. I have been following Grissom since 1961 and White since his spacewalk. Chaffee is new to me. I looked him…
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