Apollo 7-launch; REF: 107-KSC-68pc-189 (MIX FILE)AS-205; the fifth Saturn IB launch vehicle developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); lifts off from Cape Canaveral; Florida on the first marned Apollo-Saturn mission; Apollo 7. Primary mission objectives included demonstration of the Apollo crew (Walter Schirra; Don Eisele; and Walter Cunningham) capabilities and the Command/Service Module rendezvous capability. In all; nine Saturn IB flights were made; ending with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 1975.