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In the Astronaut Office, it was his intellectual bent that set him apart from some of the other pilots, along with a certain hard edge.
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Tag Archives: MIT
Oct
05
Space Rocket History #179 – Apollo 9 – The Launch
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For the 19th flight of American astronauts into space, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, representing the new administration of Richard Nixon, sat in the firing control room viewing area on March 3rd, 1969. He and other guests listened to the countdown of the Saturn-Apollo structure several kilometers away at the edge of the Florida beach.
Apollo 9 crew: McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart
Wernher von Braun waiting for launch with Vice President Spiro Agnew
Lift off of Apollo 9
Sep
28
Space Rocket History #178 – Apollo 9 – The Crew – McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart
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James Alton “Jim” McDivitt was born on June 10, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He is of Irish descent. Like many other astronauts, he was a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Tenderfoot Scout. He graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1947.
James McDivitt
David Scott
Russell Schweickart
May
19
Space Rocket History #161 – Apollo 8 – The Decision Part 2
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Perhaps the most significant point about the lunar-orbit flight proposed for Apollo 8 was that the command and service modules would fly the same route to the moon as would be used for the actual lunar landing.
General Samuel C. Phillips. Director of Apollo Manned Lunar Landing program
Dr. Wernher von Braun. The Rocket Man.
George Mueller Assoc. Admin. for NASA Office of Manned Space Flight