Assignment 7: Cameron Combs

October 11

Though this portion of the year has always had many notable occurances, there are a few events that definitely do stand out. One of these moments was on October 11, 1968 when Apollo 7 launched. This is known to be the first manned Apollo mission and conducted an 11-day orbit of Earth. During this mission, the crew also transmitted the first live television broadcast from orbit. They were able to do this under the control of Walter Schirra, and greatly changed the world forever and was a major step forward for mankind. This mission proved that the CSM (Command/Service Module) was capable of usage in orbital conditions which came of great use in future missions and advancing studies in many nations and in many ways helped NASA in their future advancements. I greatly appreciate this occurance because of the advancements which this led into and cannot wait for another similar event to occur.