Saturn IB | Apollo 7
Launch Complex 34
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apollo 7
The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. Their mission was Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the redesigned Block II Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) with a crew on board.
Apollo CSM-101
Serial CSM-101
Launch Crew Count 3
Status Single Use
Landing Time 1968-10-22T11:11:00+0000
Crew
Wally Schirra
Commander
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1923-03-12
Deceased 2007-05-03
Status Deceased
Type Government
Donn F. Eisele
Command Module Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1930-06-23
Deceased 1987-12-02
Status Deceased
Type Government
Walter Cunningham
Lunar Module Pilot
Nationality American
Date Of Birth 1932-03-16
Deceased 2023-01-03
Status Deceased
Type Government
Saturn IB
Height 43.20 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7100 kN
Diameter 6.61 Meters
Mass To LEO 21000 kg
Liftoff Mass 590 Tonnes
Launch Success 9
Consecutive Success 6
Maiden Flight 1966-02-26
Launch Failures 1
Programs
Apollo
The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
