Apollo 9 : space duet of Spider Gumdrop Offers a view of the Apollo 9 astronauts before, during and after their Earth orbital mission. Presents a pictorial record of the training, launch, and ...

Their mission launched on December 21, 1968 and lasted for six days. The Lunar Module was completed in time for Apollo 9, the first earth orbit test of that equipment. On March 3, 1969 ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first ... because Schweickart had a bad case of space sickness.) This mission showed that the lunar module was ready to fly to the ...

McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission ...

Fram2 is set to launch as early as March 31, sending four first-time astronauts into an orbit never before visited by humans.

During his space walk on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission, Astronaut Russell Schweickart shot photos of Astronaut David Scott, who was standing in an open hatch of the command module (Gumdrop).

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16 ... at the Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 a.m. on July 16. One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was ...