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Apollo 7 Launch
Title Apollo 7 Launch
Full Description The Apollo 7 Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. October 11, 1968. A tracking antenna is on the left and a pad service structure on the right.
Date 10/11/1968
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in …
Title Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in space
Description The expended Saturn IVB stage as photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers at an approximate altitude of 125 nautical miles, at ground elapsed time of three hours and 16 minutes (beginning of third revolution). This view is over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Kennedy, Florida. The Florida coastline from Flangler Beach southward to Vero Beach is visible. Much of the Florida peninsula can be seen. Behind the open panels is the Gulf of Mexico. Distance between the Apollo 7 and the S-IVB is approximately 100 feet. The round, white disc inside the open panels of the Saturn IVB is a simulated docking target similar to that used on the lunar module for docking during lunar missions.
Date 10.11.1968
Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in …
Title Apollo 7/S-IVB Rendezvous in space
Description The expended Saturn IVB stage as photographed from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during transposition and docking maneuvers at an approximate altitude of 125 nautical miles, at ground elapsed time of three hours and 16 minutes (beginning of third revolution). This view is over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Kennedy, Florida. The Florida coastline from Flangler Beach southward to Vero Beach is visible. Much of the Florida peninsula can be seen. Behind the open panels is the Gulf of Mexico. Distance between the Apollo 7 and the S-IVB is approximately 100 feet. The round, white disc inside the open panels of the Saturn IVB is a simulated docking target similar to that used on the lunar module for docking during lunar missions.
Date Taken 1968-10-11
Atlantic coastline of Florid …
Title Atlantic coastline of Florida as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft
Description Atlantic coastline of Florida from Daytona Beach southward to Palm Beach area, as seen from the Apollo 7 spacecraft during its 17th revolution of the earth. Photographed from an altitude of 123 nautical miles, at ground elapsed time of 27 hours and 12 minutes. Cape Kennedy area is in center of picture. Small cumulus cloud puffs cover part of the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39, although the Vehicle Assembly Building and crawlerways can be seen. The city of Orlando, some 50 miles inland from Cape Kennedy, is also in the photograph.
Date Taken 1968-10-12
Astronaut John Young ingress …
Title Astronaut John Young ingresses Apollo spacecraft command module in training
Description Astronaut John W. Young, command module pilot of the Apollo 7 backup crew, ingresses Apollo spacecraft command module during simulated altitude runs at the Kennedy Space Center's Pad 34.
Date Taken 1968-07-05
Apollo 7 prime crew goes thr …
Title Apollo 7 prime crew goes through suiting up operations prior to launch
Description The Apollo 7 prime crew goes through suiting up operations in the Kennedy Space Center's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building during the Apollo 7 prelaunch countdown. From front to rear, are Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., commander, Donn F. Eisele, command module pilot, and Walter Cunningham, lunar module pilot.
Date Taken 1968-10-11
Launch of the Apollo 7 space …
Title Launch of the Apollo 7 spacecraft
Description The Apollo 7/Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. October 11, 1968 (48787), Apollo 7 lifts off. Note the tracking antenna on left and pad service structure on right (48788).
Date Taken 1968-10-11
Launch of the Apollo 7 space …
Title Launch of the Apollo 7 spacecraft
Description The Apollo 7/Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. October 11, 1968 (48787), Apollo 7 lifts off.
Date Taken 1968-10-11
Nighttime view of Apollo 7 s …
Title Nighttime view of Apollo 7 spacecraft at Launch Complex 34
Description Nighttime view of Launch Complex 34, Kennedy Space Center, showing the Apollo 7 (Spacecraft 101/Saturn 205) stack on pad.
Date Taken 1968-10-10
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