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- The next step was the Apollo 9 mission, the first to carry a lunar module into orbit. Though the mission stayed in Earth orbit, Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart separated the lunar module from the command module and flew independently for six hours, testing the lunar module’s systems.
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The first of the Apollo “J” missions – designed for longer stays on the Moon – the mission carried a lunar rover, which Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin used while they were on the surface for more than 18 hours.
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The Apollo 6 Lunar Module Test Article (LTA-2R) shortly before being mated with the SLA. LM-1 was built to make the first uncrewed flight for propulsion systems testing, launched into low Earth orbit atop a Saturn IB. This was originally planned for April 1967, to be followed by the first crewed flight later that year.
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.
Apollo 9 was a mission designed to test key equipment, particularly the lunar module. This was the part of the spacecraft that would actually land on the Moon. The third crewed Apollo mission and the first crewed lunar module flight, its success was integral to humans walking on the Moon.
Launched on March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 carried out a full test of the lunar landing mission in Earth orbit. Astronauts McDivitt and Schweickart tested the lunar module and rendezvoused and docked with the command and service modules piloted by Scott. Schweickart also tested the lunar spacesuit and backpack outside the spacecraft. Meet the Astronauts.
