Saturn 1.B - Apollo 7

Oleśnica: Hobby Model №052. — 11 s. — ISSN 1231-9694.Skala 1:72. Format arkusza: A4.Apollo 7
An October 1968 space mission carried out by the United States. It was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts in January 1967. The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with command module pilot Donn F. Eisele and lunar module pilot R. Walter Cunningham (so designated even though Apollo 7 did not carry a lunar module).Apollo 7 was launched on October 11, 1968, from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean eleven days later. Extensive testing of the CSM took place, and also the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a complete technical success, giving NASA the confidence to send Apollo 8 into orbit around the Moon two months later. In part because of these tensions, none of the crew flew in space again, though Schirra had already announced he would retire from NASA after the flight. Apollo 7 fulfilled Apollo 1's mission of testing the CSM in low Earth orbit, and was a significant step forward towards NASA's goal of landing astronauts on the Moon.Saturn IB
Amerykański pojazd startowy, ulepszona wersja rakiety nośnej Saturn 1 ze znacznie mocniejszym drugim stopniem S-IVB. W przeciwieństwie do wcześniejszego Saturn-1, rakieta nośna Saturn-1B mogła wystrzelić przedziały dowodzenia i obsługi lub moduł księżycowy Apollo na niską orbitę okołoziemską. Był używany do testowania statku kosmicznego Apollo, później był używany w programach Skylab i Soyuz - Apollo.