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Apollo 7 (AS 205)
Commanding officer:
Walter M. Schirra
Pilot of the command module:
Donn F. Eisele
Pilot of the lunar module:
Walter Cunningham
On October 11th, 1968, almost 2 years after the fire
disaster of Apollo 1, one took second place to saturn 1 B rocket ready on
the launching pad 34 to take F. Eisele to an orbit around the astronauts
Walter M. Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Don in her Apollo 7 Rakete. The
start was carried out with a three-minute delay at 11:02 hours of American
east time. It was the first American three man mission. The almost
eleven-day flight was a success if one refrains from it that Schirra and
Cunningham gave cold and stomachache no end of trouble the astronauts. The
from the point of view of time packed work schedule also induced Walter
Schirra to move a planned television broadcast
 The
astronauts repeled the second degree for the saturn 1 B from their spaceship
three hours after the admission to the earth orbit. It a formation flight
followed meter with this degree in a distance of 15. They then parted with
it at first. On the 2nd day the jet engine of the supply modulus was ignited
to reach a higher Umalufbahn. In turn an approach was carried out with the
second degree. This way a Rendevous should be simulated with the lunar
module. Within the following days television broadcasts, locating tasks and
the take a photograph of select areas of the earth then stood on the program.
The spaceship landed on water approx. 30 kilometers remotely from the
destination point on October 22nd. The top dived under water, though.
However, on this circumstance the astronauts were prepared.
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