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In a time of universal deceit:

“My longing for truth was a single prayer.”

- St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
#OTD, on her birthday, we remember Edith Stein, Jewish philosopher and Carmelite nun.

Murdered in #Auschwitz.

(12. October 1891 - 9. August 1942)
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Apollo 7's S-IB in Orbit

The Saturn’s tumbling empty second (S-IB) stage is seen from #Apollo7, following the crew’s rendezvous with it on the afternoon of October 12, 1968.
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This view of southern California was taken by the #Apollo7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth on October 12, 1968.

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This view of southern California was taken by the #Apollo7 crew during their 18th revolution of the Earth on October 12, 1968.

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#Apollo11 Giant Leap tour arrives in Bonn, Germany!
October 12, 1969

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#Apollo11 Giant Leap tour arrives in Germany!
Children along the motorcade route in Bonn dressed as astronauts. October 12, 1969

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Original caption:"To be carried on daddy’s back was the only opportunity for this German boy to get a real Astronaut handshake by Edwin Aldrin when the #Apollo11 astronauts passed through the crowded city of Cologne after arrival for a two day visit to Germany, October 12, 1969."
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"Apollo" Mission...

Yes, technically speaking, ASTP is part of the Apollo program because it used an Apollo spacecraft.
👉 However, it was not one of the “Moon missions” and is often regarded as a separate follow-up project.
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Launch Day #Apollo7 - the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. October 11, 1968

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Launch Day #Apollo7 - the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. October 11, 1968

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#Apollo7 Saturn IB blasting off from LC-34 on October 11, 1968, while a Saturn V undergoes testing at LC-39A to support the Apollo 8 mission later the same year.
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Margaret Weis - You choose to go voluntarily into the fire....

#Apollo7 / Saturn 1b launch
October 11, 1968

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October 11, 1968 - #Apollo7 is launched from Cape Kennedy and was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966.
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October 11, 1968 Launch Day
First manned test flight of the CSM #Apollo7 was the only manned Apollo mission launched on a Saturn 1-B rocket and from pad 34 at Cape
Kennedy.
Apollo 7 was the first manned test of the Command and Service Module

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October 11, 1968
NASA launched #Apollo7, the first manned flight of the Apollo Program
Primary among the objectives of the 11-day mission was a test of the service propulsion system (SPS).

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Rendezvous in space
S-IVB stage in Earth orbit
October 11, 1968
signed by Walt Cunningham;
#Apollo7

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October 11, 1968
NASA launched #Apollo7, the first manned flight of the Apollo Program and the first live network television broadcast from space. It was also the
first test of the command and service module in Earth orbit!
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October 11, 1968 - #Apollo7 is launched from Cape Kennedy and was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966.
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October 11, 1968
The #Apollo7 astronauts prepare for their historic launch - the first crewed #NASA mission since #Gemini 12.
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Remembering John Lennon, on what would have been his 85th birthday

Happy birthday, @johnlennon

* October 9, 1940

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9 October 1974. Oskar Schindler died (aged 66). He’s credited with saving at least 1,200 Jews from death during the Holocaust. (Schindler's List)

"Whoever saves a life saves the whole world."
Not to forget...

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On October 9, 1968, the #Apollo8 Saturn V rocket rolled out to its launch pad. The astronauts scheduled to ride it into space that December - Frank Borman, James A. Lovell and William A. Anders - were on hand to witness the event.

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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
John Lennon would have turned 85 today.
He was born on October 9, 1940 his legacy shines on
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Buster Keaton was born 130 years ago today, on October 4, 1895