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Col Walter Cunningham, United States Marine Corps retired fighter pilot and Apollo 7 lunar module pilot, gives his remarks during the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 7 mission at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas, Oct. 20, 2018. The spacecraft crew consisted of commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., command module pilot Donn F. Eisele, and lunar module pilot Walter Cunningham. Apollo 7 was the only manned Apollo mission launched on a Saturn 1-B rocket and from pad 34 at Cape Kennedy and the first manned test of the Command and Service Module. The crew orbited the Earth 163 times and spent 10 days and 20 hours in space. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Melany Vasquez/Released)