Thursday, October 11, 2018

Apollo 7 - Launched 50 Year Ago Today . . .

John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
The Apollo 7 spacecraft, atop a Saturn IB rocket, lifts off from Complex 34.  The spacecraft achieved orbit to begin an 11-day mission.   The flight is intended to qualify Apollo for a manned flight to the moon.

This unused postcard is from 1968. (The launch was on October 11, 1968.)
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Here is another postcard...
John F. Kennedy Space Center
N.A.S.A.
Saturn IB space vehicle carrying Apollo 7 Astronauts Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham lifts off from Launch Complex 34.  Camera captures rocket clearing its 240-foot-high umbilical tower.

This postcard is unused. 

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