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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name                  = Apollo 7
| image                 = Apollo 7 during the first live television transmission from space.jpg|
| image_caption         = The crew of Apollo 7 transmitted the first live television broadcast aboard an American crewed spacecraft.
| insignia              = AP7lucky7.png
| mission_type          = Crewed CSM test flight
| operator              = [[NASA]]<ref name="Orloff">{{cite book |last=Orloff |first=Richard W. |title=Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference |url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/SP-4029.htm |access-date=July 6, 2013 |series=NASA History Series |orig-year=First published 2000 |date=September 2004 |work=NASA History Division, Office of Policy and Plans |publisher=[[NASA]] |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=0-16-050631-X |lccn=00061677 |id=NASA SP-2000-4029 |chapter=Table of Contents |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_00g_Table_of_Contents.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823124845/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/SP-4029.htm|archive-date=August 23, 2007}}</ref>
| COSPAR_ID             = 1968-089A
| SATCAT                = 3486
| mission_duration      = {{time interval|11 October 1968 15:02:45|22 October 1968 11:11:48|show=dhms|sep=,}}
| orbits_completed      = 163
| spacecraft            = [[Apollo (spacecraft)|Apollo CSM-101]]
| manufacturer          = [[Rockwell International|North American Rockwell]]
| launch_mass           = {{convert|36419|lb|kg}}<ref>{{cite web | url = https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760072144_1976072144.pdf | title = Apollo 7 Mission Report | date = December 1, 1968 | publisher = NASA | page=A-47 | format=PDF | location = Washington, D.C.}}</ref>
| landing_mass          = {{convert|11409|lb|kg}}
| launch_date           = {{start-date|October 11, 1968, 15:02:45|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC
| launch_rocket         = [[Saturn IB]] SA-205
| launch_site           = [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Kennedy]] [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]]
| landing_date          = {{end-date|October 22, 1968, 11:11:48|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC
| landing_site          = North Atlantic Ocean<br/>{{coord|27|32|N|64|04|W|type:event|name=Apollo 7 splashdown}}
| recovery_by           = {{USS|Essex|CV-9|6}}

| orbit_epoch           = October 13, 1968<ref name=satcat>{{cite web | last = McDowell | first = Jonathan | title = SATCAT| url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt | publisher = Jonathan's Space Pages | access-date = March 23, 2014}}</ref>
| orbit_reference       = [[geocentric orbit|Geocentric]]
| orbit_regime          = [[Low Earth orbit]]
| orbit_periapsis       = {{convert|227|km|nmi|sp=us}}
| orbit_apoapsis        = {{convert|301|km|nmi|sp=us}}
| orbit_inclination     = 31.6&nbsp;degrees
| orbit_period          = 89.79&nbsp;minutes
| apsis                 = gee

| crew_size             = 3
| crew_members          = {{Unbulleted list
  |[[Wally Schirra|Walter M. Schirra]]
  |[[Donn F. Eisele]]
  |[[Walter Cunningham|R. Walter Cunningham]]
}}
| crew_callsign         = Apollo 7
| crew_photo            = The Apollo 7 Prime Crew - GPN-2000-001160.jpg
| crew_photo_caption    = Left to right: Eisele, Schirra, Cunningham

| previous_mission      = [[Apollo 6]]
| next_mission          = [[Apollo 8]]
| programme             = [[Apollo program]]
}}
'''Apollo 7''' was a mission in the [[NASA]]'s [[Apollo program]]. It was the first crewed mission in the Apollo program and the first crewed [[United States|US]] space flight after [[Apollo 1]] disaster. The mission was a [[Apollo_program#Missions|C type mission]]. Apollo 7 was launched on October 11, 1968 and stayed in space for 10 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes and three seconds.<ref name="furniss">{{cite book | title=The History of Space Vehicles | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofspaceve0000timf | publisher=Grange Books | author=Furniss, Tim | year=2001 | location=London | isbn=1-84013-370-8}}</ref>{{rp|76}} It orbited the Earth. Apollo 7 was the first crewed launch of the [[Saturn IB]] launch vehicle and the first three-person US space mission. The crew were Commander [[Wally Schirra|Walter M. Schirra]], with Command Module Pilot [[Donn Eisele]] and Lunar Module Pilot [[Walter Cunningham|R. Walter Cunningham]]. The mission was designed to test the re-made Block II [[Apollo Command/Service Module]]. The crew orbited in Earth orbit so that they could check life-support, propulsion and control systems. The mission was a success. It gave NASA the confidence to launch [[Apollo 8]] later.

== Apollo 7 Media ==
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File:Apollo 7 Manned Space Flight Film Report 1967.webm|''Apollo 7: Manned Space Flight Film Report'' (1968) Official [[NASA]] Apollo 7 information film reel.

File:AS-205 crew.jpg|Schirra's crew in training for Apollo{{spaces}}2, 1966

File:Apollo 7 crew during water egress training.jpg|The crew during water egress training

File:Saturn IB at launch complex 34.jpg|Apollo 7's Saturn IB, SA-205, at Launch Complex 34

File:Apollo 7 Launch - GPN-2000-001171.jpg|The Apollo 7 Saturn IB space vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 34 at 11:03 a.m. October 11, 1968. A tracking antenna is on the left and a pad service structure on the right.

File:AS07-3-1545.jpg|Apollo 7 S-IVB rocket stage in orbit

File:Apollo 7 Cunningham.jpg|Cunningham during the mission

File:Apollo 7 recovery with SH-3 Sea King 1968.jpg|A crewmember being hoisted into the recovery [[Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King|SH-3]] helicopter

File:The Apollo 7 crew is welcomed aboard the USS Essex.jpg|The crew is welcomed aboard the [[USS Essex (CV-9)|USS ''Essex'']]
</gallery>
== References ==
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== Other websites ==
* [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/ NASA NSSDC Master Catalog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925115239/http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/ |date=2010-09-25 }}

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