Apollo 9
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Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McD
CM pilot David Scott performs a stand-up EVA from CM Gumdrop, seen from docked LM Spider
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Apollo 9 space-flown silver Robbins medallion
McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart train for the AS-205/208 mission in the first Block II spacecraft and space suits, which still had most of the fire hazards the Apollo 1 spacecraft had.
Rusty Schweickart
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Russell Louis Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, business executive, and government executive.
Apollo 9
…critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. 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…
Schweickart in 1971
Schweickart standing in front of his North American F-86 Sabre in 1963
Schweickart performs an EVA standing on the lunar module porch, photographed by fellow astronaut James McDivitt inside the LM.
Schweickart and Alexei Leonov at the 2016 Starmus Festival