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In 1968… Launch of Apollo 7

In 1968...
Workers at Cape Kennedy watch a 224-foot-high Saturn 1B rocket lift off from Launch Complex 34 carrying Apollo 7 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham at the start of their 11-day Earth orbital flight.

Workers at Cape Kennedy watch a 224-foot-high Saturn 1B rocket lift off from Launch Complex 34 carrying Apollo 7 astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham at the start of their 11-day Earth orbital flight.

Image credit: NASA

Oct. 11, 1968