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Columbus' Forgotten Apollo 7 Pilot | Columbus News
Donn Eisele, Columbus’ forgotten astronaut, helped ignite America’s space dreams aboard Apollo 7—the first crewed mission after the Apollo 1 tragedy. With his calm precision, he piloted the spacecraft, delivered the first live TV broadcasts from orbit, and earned an Emmy. Though hailed as a hero upon return, personal grief, mission tensions, and illness kept him grounded. He never flew again, leaving NASA in 1970. Four decades later, he and his crewmates were posthumously awarded NASA’s highest honor, a belated tribute to the quiet brilliance that helped restore faith in spaceflight. Listen…
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