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Collection:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
title:
Apollo 9 Lunar Module "Spider" Over Earth's Ocean
description:
Apollo 9 Command/Service Modules (CSM) nicknamed "Gumdrop" and Lunar Module (LM), nicknamed "Spider" are shown docked together as Command Module pilot David R. Scott stands in the open hatch. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, took this photograph of Scott during his EVA as he stood on the porch outside the Lunar Module. Apollo 9 was an Earth orbital mission designed to test docking procedures between the CSM and LM as well as test fly the Lunar Module in the relative safe confines of Earth orbit.
date:
03.09.1969
keywords:
Solar System Exploration
keywords:
SSE
keywords:
Space
keywords:
NASA
keywords:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords:
JPL
keywords:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
keywords:
Planets
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Apollo 9
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
03-09-1969
facet_when_year:
1969
facet_who:
David R. Scott
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-4483
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Apollo 9 Lunar Module "Spider" Over Earth's Ocean