Keywords: The Saturn I-B launch vehicle, carrying the Apollo 7 spacecraft with astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham aboard, is photographed at more than 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean from a C-135 aircraft using an Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS). The ALOTS is a precision photographic system that can provide information on launch vehicles during the early launch stage, separation and re-entry phases of the flight. Date: October 11, 1968 (Credit: NASA) The Saturn I-B launch vehicle, carrying the Apollo 7 spacecraft with astronauts Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham aboard, is photographed at more than 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean from a C-135 aircraft using an Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS). The ALOTS is a precision photographic system that can provide information on launch vehicles during the early launch stage, separation and re-entry phases of the flight. Date: October 11, 1968 (Credit: NASA) |