Human Spaceflight
APOLLO 9 CM
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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 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 the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 3, 1969 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Saturn V →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Apollo 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 444 km
- Periapsis
- 183 km
- Inclination
- 33.5°
- Orbital period
- 90.8 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 11,105.05 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-018A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3769
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 13, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 13, 1969
- Time in service
- 10 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed