Saturn V | Apollo 9
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Launch Window
March 3, 1969, 4 p.m. - March 3, 1969, 4 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
March 3, 1969, 4 p.m. - March 3, 1969, 4 p.m.
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 …
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.
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 10, 1929
Date of Death:
Oct. 13, 2022
Date of
Birth: June 6, 1932
Age: 94
Date of
Birth: Oct. 25, 1935
Age: 90
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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