Apollo 9

After a ten-day mission, covering a staggering six million miles, Apollo 9 landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The primary objectives were to demonstrate crew, space vehicle and mission support facilities performance during a manned Saturn 5 mission; to demonstrate lunar module/crew performance; and to demonstrate docking. All primary objectives were completed. Apollo 9 was the first mission to have all lunar hardware on board, was the first test of the lunar module in space, first test of the Portable Life Support System in space, and like Apollo 8 had live TV coverage. Its crew was James McDivitt (commander), David Scott (command module pilot), and R. Schweikart (lunar module pilot).


Mission After a ten-day mission, covering a staggering six million miles, Apollo 9 landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The primary objectives were to demonstrate crew, space vehicle and mission support facilities performance during a manned Saturn 5 mission; to demonstrate lunar module/crew performance; and to demonstrate docking. All primary objectives were completed. Apollo 9 was the first mission to have all lunar hardware on board, was the first test of the lunar module in space, first test of the Portable Life Support System in space, and like Apollo 8 had live TV coverage. Its crew was James McDivitt (commander), David Scott (command module pilot), and R. Schweikart (lunar module pilot).
		Mr.Jim McDivitt Born June 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from University of Michigan. Flew on Gemini IV and Apollo 9, and was the Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are more than 338.
		Mr. Dave Scott Colonel, U.S. Air Force (Retired)
		Mr. Rusty Schweickart Born October 25, 1935 in Neptune, New Jersey. Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology; master of science in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flew on Apollo 9. Cumulative hours of spaceflight are more than 241. His cumulative EVA time is even more. than 1 hour.