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Apollo 9
| Mission Number: AS-504 | 3-13 March 1969 |
Crew:
Backup Crew:
Charles
Conrad, Jr., Commander
Richard
F. Gordon, Jr., CSM Pilot
Alan L.
Bean, LM Pilot
Launch:
Pad: 39-A
Date: 3 March 1969
Time: 16:00:00 UTC
Orbit:
Altitude: 192 km x 190 km
Orbits: 152
Duration: 10 days, 1 hour, 1 minute
Landing:
Location: Atlantic Ocean (23° 12.5' N, 67° 56' W)
Vessel: USS
Guadalcanal (LPH-7)
Date: 13 March 1969
Time: 17:01 UTC
First manned flight of all lunar hardware in Earth orbit. First manned flight of the Lunar Module. The CSM performed docking and undocking exercises with the LM. Schweickart had 37 minutes of EVA. Scott participated in what is referred to as a "stand up EVA".
The Command and Service Module (CSM) was named Gumdrop, and the Lunar Module (LM) was named Spider.
The Apollo 9 command module is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum to the San Diego Aerospace Museum in San Diego, CA.