Apollo 7 splashed down at 7:11 a.m. EDT on October 22, 1968, approximately 200 nautical miles south of Bermuda. Apollo also gave NASA the first live TV broadcast from space, which took place on ...

Apollo 7 launches on Oct. 11, 1968. (NASA) “The success of Apollo 7 gave the nation confidence to be able to meet President Kennedy’s commitment of landing a man on the Moon before the end of ...

Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham died at 90. Getty Images. His family, in a statement through NASA, expressed their “immense pride” in the life Cunningham led.

NASA Walter Cunningham, last surviving NASA Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90: 'True hero' Cunningham was part of team aboard 1968 mission that orbited Earth during 11-day spaceflight ...

NASA gets keys to Orion spacecraft | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2025; Commanding the Apollo 7 crew was Wally Schirra, a veteran of NASA's Mercury program, which was the first human ...

The stakes were already high. When Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968, it was the first time NASA sent astronauts into space since a cabin fire had killed the Apollo 1 crew some 21 months earlier.

The Apollo 7 mission went so well that NASA gave the go-ahead for the crew of Apollo 8 to fly into lunar orbit, just two months later. But in other respects, the Apollo 7 crew had difficulties.

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.

NASA announced the 90-year-old Cunningham's death on Tuesday. ... "On Apollo 7, the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission, Walt and his crewmates made history, ...

Walter “Walt” Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo program, died early Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA said.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s … ...

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in ...