The first U.S. crew launch in two years marked the first human flight of the Apollo command module following the Apollo 1 fire that claimed the lives of its crew during a launch pad training exercise in January of 1967. After a significant redesign, Apollo 7 inherited the planned objectives of Apollo 1. The 11-day flight marked the first three-person U.S. spaceflight and the first time the Apollo Command and Service Modules -- critical to the coming lunar missions -- were tested in orbit with a crew onboard. This included eight firings of the Service Module engine that would place Apollo into and take it out of lunar orbit. The flight was a complete technical success and gave NASA confidence to send the next Apollo flight to orbit the Moon. The crew also made the first live TV broadcast from a crewed American spacecraft during this mission. During the flight, Schirra became sick with a cold. Beginning with NASA overruling weather violations (which should have scrubbed the launch for crew safety) the crew actively talked back to controllers, openly questioned mission control during the flight, and disobeyed mission control commands. All three never flew again.