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APOLLO 9 CM

DecayedHuman SpaceflightLEO

Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. 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).

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Launch

Launch date
March 3, 1969 at 04:00 PM UTC
Launch site
Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
Launched by
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Operator
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Apollo 9
Launch record
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Orbit

Orbit regime
LEO
Apoapsis
444 km
Periapsis
183 km
Inclination
33.5°
Orbital period
90.8 min

Identity

COSPAR (Int'l)
1969-018A
NORAD catalog №
3769
Object type
Payload
Owner / operator
United StatesUnited States
Status
Decayed
Decay / reentry
March 13, 1969

End of mission

Last active / ended
March 13, 1969
Time in service
10 days
Fate
Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
Final status
Decayed