3.2K views · 63 reactions |  In October 1968, Apollo 7 became the first crewed Apollo mission - orbiting Earth 163 times and broadcasting the first live TV from space! The launch took off from the Kennedy Space Center - one of this year’s America’s Field Trip destinations! ✨ Students nationwide can enter for a chance to visit this historic site and see where America’s journey to the stars began. 六‍ Submit your entry now at America250.org/FieldTrip | America250 | Facebook

LIVE NOW: View our #Apollo50 Anniversary video about Apollo 7, the first program mission to carry a crew into space. Walter Cunningham called it "the most ambitious, and most successful first test flight of any new flying machine, ever." Follow & watch NASA's Look at 50 Years of Apollo: | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

🚀🌝 On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Space history is happening now 👉 https://trib.al/kMOyis2 Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the command module pilot, and Harrison Schmitt piloted the lander. Like most of the other Apollo missions, they lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's historic launchpad 39A on a gigantic Saturn V rocket. This was the last time a Saturn V rocket w