On this day in aviation and space history, 57 years ago (October 10, 1968), NASA launched Apollo 7-the first successful crewed mission of the Apollo program. At precisely 15:02:45 UTC, a Saturn IB ...
Apollo astronauts reached speeds exceeding 24,000 miles per hour on their way to the Moon, driven by a rocket that remains ...
Click to open image viewer. This is a commercial copy of the Apollo 7 mission patch. Apollo 7 was launched on October 11, 1968, and returned after almost eleven days in Earth orbit. It was the first ...