TheApollo11Channel's video: Apollo 40th Anniversary - Apollo 7 Animation

Apollo 7 launched from Cape Canaveral Florida, on October 11, 1968 on a Saturn-IB Rocket. It was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. Aboard was a three man crew of Mission Commander Walter M. Schirra, Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission intended as a test flight of the newly redesigned Command Module. Accordingly, it flew low around the Earth so its crew could track life-support systems, the propulsion systems and the control systems. Despite emotional tension amongst the crew the mission was a technical success, which led NASA to launch Apollo 8 just two months later.