Mar. 6, 1969: Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight 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 module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). The mission was flown to qualify the LM for lunar orbit operations in preparation for the first Moon landing by demonstrating its descent and ascent propulsion systems, showing

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152K views · 790 reactions | During Apollo 9 astronaut David Scott partially emerged from the Command Module hatch on flight day 3, to retrieve a thermal sample from the spacecraft's exteriorApollo 9, launched on March 3, 1969, was the first crewed test of the full Apollo spacecraft. #space #astronomy #NASA | Josh Universe | Facebook