October 1968
Apollo 7 Cabin Systems Test
Tests life-support, electrical and crew systems in the redesigned Apollo command module.
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Tests life-support, electrical and crew systems in the redesigned Apollo command module.
Performs navigation and spacecraft systems checks during the eleven-day Apollo 7 engineering mission.
Appears in later Apollo 7 television broadcasts showing the spacecraft interior and crew operations.
Commands the first crewed test of the redesigned Apollo command and service module.
Helps conduct the first Service Propulsion System burn of Apollo 7 during rendezvous preparations.
Participates in rendezvous operations with the spent S-IVB stage to test techniques needed for later Apollo missions.
Leads the first live television broadcast from an American crewed spacecraft.
Controls a brief Service Propulsion System firing to test minimum-impulse performance.
Manually assists a long Service Propulsion System burn that verifies engine performance and propellant monitoring.
Commands Apollo 8 as the Saturn V third stage sends the crew from Earth orbit toward the Moon.
Commands Spider during crewed testing of the lunar module descent propulsion system.
Leads activation and checkout of lunar module Spider during its first crewed flight.
Helps activate and check out Spider, the first lunar module flown with astronauts aboard.
Helps conduct command and service module propulsion tests during the ten-day engineering mission.
Serves as command module pilot on Apollo 9.
Commands the first crewed Apollo docking with a lunar module in Earth orbit.
Pilots the command module during transposition and docking with lunar module Spider.
Tests the lunar module descent engine, including crewed throttling planned for lunar landing operations.
Tests lunar module spacesuit systems during Apollo 9.
Supports Schweickart’s EVA from the command module while testing crew transfer and rescue procedures.
Tests the portable life support backpack and lunar spacesuit systems during Apollo 9.
Tests the lunar surface spacesuit and portable life support backpack outside lunar module Spider.
Pilots Gumdrop alone while McDivitt and Schweickart conduct the lunar module free-flight test.
Commands Spider during its independent free flight away from command module Gumdrop.
Flies in Spider during the first crewed independent flight of a lunar module.
Pilots Gumdrop during rendezvous and docking with Spider after the lunar module's independent flight.
Commands Spider through rendezvous and redocking with Gumdrop after the lunar module free flight.
Participates in Spider's rendezvous with command module Gumdrop after the free-flight test.
Pilots command module Gumdrop during rendezvous and redocking with lunar module Spider.
Flies aboard Spider during the first crewed independent flight of a lunar module.
Uses the lunar module ascent engine during rendezvous exercises simulating departure from the Moon.
Pilots lunar module Spider away from the command module for independent flight tests.
Conducts Earth landmark tracking to test navigation methods during Apollo 9.
Commands Apollo 10 as the Saturn V sends the complete crewed spacecraft toward the Moon.
Pilots Columbia during transposition and docking with lunar module Eagle after translunar injection.
Commands Apollo 11 as the Saturn V third stage sends the spacecraft toward the Moon.
Commands Apollo 13 as the Saturn V sends Odyssey and Aquarius toward the Moon.
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