50 years ago, NASA astronauts prepared to return to space
Excerpt from the June 8, 1968 issue of Science News
THREE’S COMPANY Twenty months after the deadly fire on Apollo 1, Apollo 7 and its crew (from left), Donn F. Eisele, Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Walter Cunningham, spent nearly 11 days in space, completing 163 orbits of Earth.
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Apollo milestone at last
The spacecraft fire that killed three Apollo astronauts and rocked the space agency a year and a half ago is still being felt.…