Saturn V | Apollo 9
Successful Launch
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March 3, 1969, 4 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Instantaneous launch window.
Apollo 9 was commanded by James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot Dave Scott and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. The mission tested the LM engines, backpack life support systems, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers.
Apollo 9 was a March 1969 human spaceflight, the third in NASA's Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service ...
The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.
CSM-104 "Gumdrop" was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 9 mission.
Apollo Command/Service Module Details
Date of Birth: June 6, 1932
Age: 88
Date of Birth: Oct. 25, 1935
Age: 84
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