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  1. Space Rocket History #184 – Apollo 9 – The Return

    Even before crawling back into the command module, McDivitt said he was tired and ready for a three-day holiday. Another 140 hours would pass before touchdown in the Atlantic, but the crew had achieved more than 90 percent of the mission ob

  2. Space Rocket History #183 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers Part 4

    When Scott tried to release the lunar module, he did not hold the button long enough so the lander got hung on the capture latches.

  3. Space Rocket History #182 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers Part 3

    On the fourth day of the flight of Apollo 9, Schweickart felt better than expected as he worked his way into the lander to get it ready for the EVA. By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more – to stand on

  4. Space Rocket History #181 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers Part 2

    McDivitt later said that the engine had come on abruptly, but with the tremendous mass, acceleration was very slow – it took the whole 5 seconds to add 11 meters per second to the speed.

  5. Space Rocket History #180 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers

    As Dave Scott pulled in closer to the Lunar Module he noticed that the command module’s nose was out of line with the lander’s nose. Scott tried to use a service module thruster to turn left, but that jet was not operating. It turns out tha

  6. Space Rocket History #179 – Apollo 9 – The Launch

    For the 19th flight of American astronauts into space, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, representing the new administration of Richard Nixon, sat in the firing control room viewing area on March 3rd, 1969. He and other guests listened to the

  7. Space Rocket History #178 – Apollo 9 – The Crew – McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart

    James Alton “Jim” McDivitt was born on June 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He is of Irish descent. Like many other astronauts, he was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Tenderfoot Scout. He graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School, Kal

  8. Space Rocket History #177 – Apollo 9 – Preparations

    The biggest concern before Apollo 9 was the docking maneuver. In early 1969, at NASA there was little confidence in the docking system. At a January program review, Phillips said that problems encountered during probe and drogue testing wor

  9. Space Rocket History #176 – The First Test Flight of the Soviet N1

    Finally, on the morning of February 21, all the population of the N1 assembly area and a residential area, situated just south of the launch pad, was ordered to evacuate. The giant service structure then rolled away leaving the dark-gray ro

  10. Space Rocket History #175 – Early History of the Soviet N1 – Part 2

    On August the third 1964 Decree number 655-268 was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. For the first time a command was given for OKB-1 to put one man on the moon and return him safely to earth before the United States (

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