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Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program.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).
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
The Apollo program included three other crewed missions: Apollo 1 (AS-204) did not launch and its crew died in a ground-based capsule fire, while Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were low Earth orbit missions that only tested spacecraft components and docking maneuvers. Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled.
Councilman Howard Smith, in his late 20s, was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Guadalcanal as the space race was underway.
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1962 challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
Apollo 9: March 3, 1969 Heliocentric orbit S-IVB-505N Apollo 10: May 18, 1969 Heliocentric orbit S-IVB-506 Apollo 11: July 16, 1969 Heliocentric orbit S-IVB-507 Apollo 12: November 14, 1969 Heliocentric orbit Believed to have been discovered as an asteroid in 2002 and given the designation J002E3: S-IVB-508 Apollo 13: April 11, 1970
March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground. [4] March 17