Space.com ‘Apollo Pilot’: Late Astronaut’s Lost Words Rediscovered in New Memoir 2 December 2016 fborgosano Leave a comment Share: Donn Eisele became the 30th person to orbit the Earth as a member of NASA’s first crew to launch onboard an Apollo spacecraft in 1968. Eisele died in 1987 without written about his Apollo 7 mission, or so everyone thought. from Space.com bit.ly/2fUk4zK Share: