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First TV picture: “Cunnigham looks at his communications equipment floating weightlessly above him in the orbiting Apollo 7 spacecraft” (NASA caption).

Second TV picture: “Donn Eisele and Walter Schirra hold humorous sign which is blocking the latter’s face.
The sign, bearing the message: ‘and as the Sun sinks slowly to the West’ signaled the end of the seventh and last TV transmission from space” (NASA caption).

237:26:59 Schirra: We have one more sign for you to close out our weekly series, and we plan to drop in tomorrow and see how everybody held out. [Pause.]
237:27:04 Swigert (Mission Control): Could you move it a little closer? Let’s see, Donn, you want to help him out there. “As the Sun sinks slowly in the west.”
237:27:18 Schirra: This is Apollo 7, cutting out now.
237:27:23 Swigert: A very good one, Wally.
237:27:24 Schirra: Time for a commercial. [Long pause.]
237:27:30 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): That apparently brings down the curtain on another television performance.

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Both photographs show the port city of Antofagosta on the Pacific Coast, Chile and the Andes mountains including the border between Argentina, Bolivia and Peru; the first from an altitude of 117 nautical miles, the second from an altitude of 172 nautical miles.Cunningham and spacecraft commander Walter Schirra prided themselves on always identifying the subjects of their photographs instead of just noting the location in terms of time.

“We were continually playing a oneupsman game of geography so that Dick [NASA chief of photography Richard Underwood, who reviewed the on-board recordings] would be impressed when he read the tape,” recalled Cunningham (Schick and Van Haaften, p.84).

From the mission transcript during orbit 81:

127:13:36 Eisele: Frames 93 to 97 were taken at 127 hours and 12 minutes into the flight: the coast of Chile and some inland features.

From the mission transcript during orbit 154:

243:57:14 Cunningham: Landmark 153 on magazine N, that’s frames 42 and 43. The first one is of the coastline right about Antofagasta, just slightly north of Antofagasta, and the second picture was roughly in the same spot.

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The mission signaled a new potential for on-board space photography, made possible by the relative spaciousness of the Apollo Command Module. For the first time, cameramen were free to move about the cabin and select framing and perspective.

“On Apollo 7, we had more film, and more time to kill,” said Walter Schirra. “The Gemini spacecraft wasn’t so spacious inside that you could get a good picture without a superwide-angle lens. But with the Apollo spacecraft, you had room to get some distance or depth of field. So we started studying the spacecraft contents, where before we had been fascinated by the view outside” (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 21).

From the mission transcript during orbit 156:

248:08:00 Public Affairs Officer (Mission Control): This is Apollo Control, 248 hours, 8 minutes into the mission. Guam has LOS. During this pass before beginning their (sleep) period, Wally Schirra and Walt Cunningham had a discussion with Gene Kranz, the Flight Director on this team, the last shift of the Kranz team in Apollo 7, each of the crewmen expressed their appreciation to him for the support of this team. Donn Eisele is awake now. He’s getting his breakfast.

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The Apollo 7 Command Module splashdowned at 7:11 a.m. EDT, October 22, 1968, in the Atlantic Ocean (first photograph).

The Apollo 7 crew arrived aboard the USS Essex, the prime recovery ship for the mission, at the successful completion of the 11-day and after 164 revolutions Earth orbital mission which tested the three man spacecraft system for future lunar voyages (second photograph).

In summarizing the mission, Samuel Phillips, Director of the Apollo Program Office at NASA Headquarters, declared that Apollo 7 accomplished 101% of its planned objectives, giving the nation confidence to be able to meet President Kennedy’s commitment of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade (https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-7-ends-101-successful).

However, the crew had developed a bad head cold shortly after liftoff, exacerbated by the zero-gravity environment; and tensions with Mission Control concerning the heavy schedule, added duties and reentry procedures occurred during the flight.

“Medication was taken, but the colds caused extreme discomfort to the crew throughout the mission. This hampered performance of some of the scheduled duties. During re-entry the astronauts did not wear their helmets to make it possible to properly clear their throats and ears” (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1968-089A).