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Apollo 7
Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
15:02:45
Friday October 11, 1968
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Mission Details
Launch Notes
It was the first mission in the United States Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966. Final time humans were launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (at the time Air Force Station), until the launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) on an Atlas V from SLC-41 in June 2024.
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 fulfilled Apollo 1's mission of testing the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) in low Earth orbit.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
26,419 kilograms
Launch Site
Stats
Saturn IB
5th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1968
1968
97th
Orbital launch attempt