https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/apollo-7/Recent content in Apollo 7 on LocodigitalHugoen-USSun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/apollo-7-at-58-the-test-flight-that-paved-the-way-to-the-moon/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/apollo-7-at-58-the-test-flight-that-paved-the-way-to-the-moon/<p>Today, October 11, 2026, it has been 58 years since a Saturn IB rocket left Cape Kennedy with three men inside a capsule that had only flown uncrewed until then. <strong>Apollo 7</strong> did not land on the Moon, fly around it, or even get close. Even so, without it nothing that came later would have happened.</p> <h2>What was Apollo 7?</h2> <p>It was the first crewed flight of the Apollo program and an engineering test in Earth orbit. According to <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/apollo-7/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a>, it launched on October 11, 1968, from Launch Complex 34, and the spacecraft (Spacecraft 101) splashed down on October 22 in the Atlantic, southeast of Bermuda.</p>