Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1969-03-03
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237932

Inscriptions:
stamped: NASA / NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: / PHOTO NO. / THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION – NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee / of a commercial product, process, or service, or used in any other manner that might mis- / lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters, / books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also / requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects; typed: COLOR / 3 March 1969 / CAPE KENNEDY, FLORIDA / APOLLO 9 LIFTOFF---The Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104//Lunar Module 3 // Saturn 504) / space vehicle is launched from Pad A. Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Cen- / ter at 11 a.m. (EST), March 3, 1969. Aboard the spacecraft are Astronauts / James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and / Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. The Apollo 9 mission will / evaluate spacecraft lunar module systems performance during manned earth- / orbital flight. Apollo 9 is the second manned Saturn V mission; stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / CONTROL ROOM AND LAUNCHING PAD
Retouching: N