Apollo 12 / Unidentified photographer

Portrait of Apollo 12

1969

Vintage photograph with green NASA MSC caption number “S-69-17590” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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A portrait of the Apollo 9 crew, from left to right, James A. McDivitt, Commander; David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, Lunar Module Pilot (Spacecraft 104/ Lunar Module 3/ Saturn 504) space mission.

“The Apollo 9 and 10 missions were the learning phase of the program, coming as they did between the first tests of the Command Module in deep space on Apollo 8 and the lunar landing of Apollo 11. Apollo 9 and 10 were missions designed to rehearse all the steps and reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11 mission with the single exception of the lunar touchdown, stay, and liftoff. [...] We learned from those two missions how to develop our flight procedures. They are complex, at best, and for future missions we wanted to know exactly what alternatives we would have under a wide variety of circumstances to assure the safety of the astronauts and the success of the missions, in that order.”
NASA associate administrator George Muller