Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA 's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon.

May 13, 2025 · General McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962. He was command pilot for Gemini 4 and commander of Apollo 9. This was the first flight of the complete set …

The Apollo 9 mission was the first crewed flight of all Apollo lunar hardware, as well as the first crewed flight of the lunar module. Launched on March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 carried out a full test of the lunar …

The ten-day Apollo 9 mission was designed to qualify the lunar module and to demonstrate combined spacecraft functions for manned lunar flight.

Apollo 9 marked the first flight of all three main Apollo vehicle elements – the Saturn V launch vehicle, the Command Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM).

Apollo 9 was the first flight test of the lunar module, the spider-like lander that would carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon. On 3 March 1969, a Saturn V rocket a lunar module, service module, and …

On 3 March 1969, the Apollo 9 mission launched as a test-run for the Apollo 11 moonlanding that would take place just months later. This is the story of the mission that paved the way for putting human …