Apollo 7

Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission.

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• Wally Schirra (flew on Mercury 8, Gemini 6A), commander
• Donn Eisele (first time in space), command module pilot
• Walter Cunningham (first time in space), lunar module pilot

This crew was originally the backup crew of the ill-fated Apollo 1.

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Backup Crew

• Tom Stafford, commander
• John Young, command module pilot
• Gene Cernan, lunar module pilot

Support Crew

• Ron Evans
• Ed Givens
• John Swigert
• Bill Pogue

Apollo program: The Apollo program was a NASA spaceflight endeavor that landed the first humans on Earth's moon. Conceived during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after US President John F. Kennedy announced his support for a manned moon landing on May 25, 1961, as part of a special ...

Saturn IB: The Saturn IB was an uprated version of the Saturn I, which was the first manned launch vehicle that was not directly derived from an ICBM (though its tanks were derived from the Jupiter and Redstone tanks, and its first stage engines were Navaho derived). It was conceived in 1962 for use as the lau...

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