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On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. Discover space history 👉 https://trib.al/Sjn3OwK This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier. NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was really more of a test flight. Though the spac