Apollo 9 55 lat od startu

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https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1764365230719541754

#OTD 55 years ago ✨

Apollo 9 launched on March 3, 1969, with ASE Founding and Life Member Rusty Schweickart aboard!

To learn more, check out the mission page from @NASA
: https://www.nasa.gov/mission/apollo-9/

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Już jest naprawiony wątek po majstrowaniu NASA.
3. artykuł jednak pozostaje z medialnymi usterkami.
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=33.msg128972#msg128972

https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1764029857132933383

3 March 1969. 16.00.00 UTC/GMT. NASA launched Apollo 9 to test the Lunar Module in Earth orbit. First flight of the Command/Service Module with the Lunar Module.

James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart were the first to take the Apollo Lunar Module into space and test the life support backpack that would be used on the lunar surface: vital steps in meeting Kennedy’s goal of landing humans on the Moon: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ti1Pu0

https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1764289639651660267


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https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1764703599521640862

5 March 1969. First manned flight of an Apollo Lunar Module, first docking and extraction of a Lunar Module. Apollo 9.

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The Apollo 11 mission will long be remembered as a turning point in history, but the flights that preceded it were essential to getting the @NASA systems and hardware ready!
Learn more about Apollo 9, the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: https://go.nasa.gov/3wMdit9

https://x.com/NASAhistory/status/1766852800351281354


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https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1767633006746017875

13 March 1969. 17.00.54 UTC/GMT. Splashdown of Apollo 9 in the North Atlantic. The third manned mission in the American Apollo space program and first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM).