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Alternate Apollo 7: Astronaut's anniversary patch recalls 'Flight of the Phoenix' [i] Forty-six years ago this week, NASA's first Apollo astronauts to launch into space were circling the Earth — just as their mission patch depicted. The insignia showed the Apollo 7 spacecraft, including the command and service module, in an inclined elliptical orbit flying above the planet. The circular emblem captured the goal of the 11-day flight: to test the new spacecraft during a "shakedown cruise" to prove it was ready to fly crews to the moon. As appropriate as the design may have been, it was not what the crew initially envisioned as representing all of the aspects of their mission.[/i]
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