Apollo7: Oct. 11, 1968

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  • i dont understand, why was the flight delayed for minutes?

  • My take on Schirra and Apollo 7 is that he knew that if this flight failed, there would be no Moon program anymore, and that he would die, of course. I think he has to be thanked for getting the program back on the right course, even if he had to step on some toes in the process. It was a program that need exactly that at the time.

  • When Walt Cunningham found out that Chris Kraft had made it clear that he would never fly Apollo or any flight again he confronted him and asked if it was true. Kraft replied "you heard it from the horses mouth" What he Eisle and Wally Schirra did was out of order for the program but you can understand why they did it and maybe sympathise with the two rookie Astronauts, who may have gone on to the moon. but lost it due to their silly behaviour

  • This was the first manned test flight of the Saturn1B booster, the first test flight of an apollo CSM, the first time the crew tried to fly with the SIVB stage, then separate from it and turn to it as it would do to extract a LM in a lunar mission. The crew of three(also a first) each had to perform these maneuvering tecniques flawlessly. They all had terrible head colds, and one could understand Schirra's consternation that Mission Control wanted added experiments and multiple TV broadcasts.

  • What did they do?

  • None of them ever flew again after this disgraceful performance. The only time Mission Control ever lost it with a crew.

  • Thank you, Wally!

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