Apollo 9: Three to Make Ready pt2-2 1969 NASA color 4min

video for embedding at http://scitech.quickfound.net/ NEW VERSION: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilawptLX3dU has improved sound and video, all in 1 part. Apollo 9, an Earth-orbit rehearsal for later lunar landings, was the 3rd manned flight of Project Apollo, and the first manned flight of the Lunar Module in the Apollo program. During the mission, Rusty Schweickert performed an EVA (spacewalk) from the Lunar Module to simulate later moonwalk EVAs. Commander James A. McDivitt Command Module Pilot David R. Scott Lunar Module Pilot Russell L. Schweickart Command Module "Gumdrop" CM-104 mass 26,801 kg Lunar Module "Spider" LM-3 mass 14,575 kg Launch vehicle Saturn V SA-504 Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center Florida, USA Launch date March 3, 1969 16:00:00 UTC Landing March 13, 1969 17:00:54 UTC North Atlantic Ocean NASA film JSC-509 rendezvous and docking, astronaut, space, space suit, moon landing, moon program,