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Following the disaster of Apollo I, Apollos II and III were cancelled. Unmanned flights referred to as Apollo 4, 5 and 6 were sent up to test launch systems and other techno tools. The following astronauts were on the first successful manned Apollo mission, Apollo 7. 

Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007), (Capt, USN), was a Captain in the US Navy and an aviator, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot. He was one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, America's first effort to put humans in space. He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962, becoming the fifth American, and the ninth man, to ride a rocket into space. In the two-man Gemini program, he was involved in the first space rendezvous between the Gemini 6A spacecraft and  the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965, coming to within 1 foot  of Gemini 7.  In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module. He was the first person to go into space three times, and the only person to have flown in Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, logging a total of 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. He retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of Captain and from NASA after his Apollo flight, becoming a consultant to CBS News for its coverage of the subsequent Apollo flights. He joined Walter Cronkite as co-anchor for the seven Moon landing missions. 

Donn F. Eisele (June 23, 1930 – December 2, 1987), (Col, USAF), was an  US Air Force officer and test pilot. During his time as an astronaut, he occupied the Command Module Pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. Originally scheduled to be on the crew of Apollo 1, Eisele was replaced by Chaffee when Eisele suffered from a dislocated shoulder twice during training. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand, before moving into private business.

Walter Cunningham “Walt” (born March 16, 1932), retired as a Colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve.  In 1968, he was the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See).  He had also been a fighter pilot, physicist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author of The All-American Boys, lecturer, and host of the radio show Lift-off to Logic.