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September 23, 2022
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Apollo 7: The Grumblers of Space

J
Josepha
Mars Mission Correspondent

Did you know that the crew of Apollo 7 had a funny nickname?

After a series of uninhabited test flights, Apollo 7 took off on October 1968 but the captain Walter Schirra suffering from a cold contaminated his teammates.

The mood of the astronauts was disturbed to the point that the media ended up nicknaming them the "grumblers of space".

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