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Robert Pearlman
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posted 10-11-2006 05:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From The Orlando Sentinel:
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Lessons from Apollo 7
Spirits of recovery, rebirth guide NASA today

by William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate

On Oct. 11, 1968, a golden-flamed phoenix took off from its perch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The phoenix was the Saturn IB launch vehicle, carrying the first astronaut crew (Apollo 7) to fly in space after the tragic Apollo 1 launch pad fire, which took the lives of astronauts Roger Chaffee, Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Edward White.


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Naraht
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posted 10-11-2006 09:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Naraht   Click Here to Email Naraht     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not a bad article.

Still, I always thought the main lesson of Apollo 7 was "don't talk back to the flight director".

Brock
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posted 10-13-2006 09:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brock   Click Here to Email Brock     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I think the lessons of Apollo 7 go beyond NASA and the space program. It reaffirms that when confronted with tragedy and setbacks, the United States is resilient and will do what it takes to fix the problem and make sure that the problems are not repeated.

I think Apollo 7 seems to be a forgotten flight in the shadow of more glamorous flights such as Apollo 8. In many ways I believe that Apollo 7 was one of the most important flights of them all by giving NASA so much confidence in the newly redesigned CSM that they were willing to send the next flight to the moon.

It is highly appropriate that Apollo 7 was launched from LC-34. From the ashes of Apollo 1 came one NASA's great successes.

dss65
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posted 10-13-2006 09:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for dss65   Click Here to Email dss65     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very well put, Brock.

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