On this day 11 Oct:Apollo 7 Lauched into space

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham.

This was the first mission of the Apollo program that took a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months sooner. NASA needed to show that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was more of a test flight.

Though the spacecraft seemed to work all right, the crew took a little snippy during their 11 days in space. First, they suffered from motion sickness after launch, then Schirra came down with a cold, and the crew was always arguing with mission control and each other. None of the Apollo 7 astronauts went back into space after that.