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Apollo 9 Launch Aims for Manned Earth Orbit Flight Test
Apollo 9 begins a 10 day mission to test the fully assembled Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit. The mission includes docking the command service module with the lunar module, EVA by Schweikart, and multiple service propulsion burns to achieve rendezvous, descent propulsion, and lunar module docking. An Atlantic splashdown is planned near 33N, 60W, about 1,000 nautical miles east of Cape Kennedy.
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Cape Kennedy