On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. Discover space history 👉 https://trib.al/Sjn3OwK This was the first mission of the Apollo program that carried a crew into space. Apollo 7 rebooted the Apollo program after a fire killed three astronauts during a launch rehearsal 20 months earlier. NASA needed to prove that their Apollo spacecraft worked with this mission, which was really more of a test flight. Though the spac

We marked the 50th Anniversary of the #MoonLanding this past weekend, and today we had the honor of sitting down with Poppy Northcutt, who served as the first woman in the Apollo Space Program's Mission Control. Watch to see how that was only part of her incredible influence on history and her new documentary about the #Apollo11 Moon Landing! For more incredible guests, join us weekdays at 10am/9c on Hallmark Channel USA. | Home & Family

33K views · 324 reactions | On January 27, 1967, three Apollo...