After launching from Kennedy Space Center on October 11, the crew of Apollo 7, Walter M. Schirra Jr. (commander), Donn F. Eisele (command module pilot), and Walter Cunningham (lunar module pilot) splashed down at 7:11:48 a.m. (EDT) on this day in 1968. It was the first U.S. three-man mission; first flight of a Block II Apollo Spacecraft; first flight of the new Apollo spacesuits; first flight with full crew support equipment; and the first live nationally televised broadcast from space during a manned space flight.
~Florida Historical Society
