3 March 1969: Apollo 9 lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, & Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart aboard the Command & Service Module Gumdrop atop a Saturn V rocket also carrying the Lunar Module Spider; Gumdrop & Spider were the first N.A.S.A. spacecraft with call signs since Gemini 3's Molly Brown.
Bonus! Moonshot Songs o' the Day
The Phenomenauts, "Infinite Frontier" from For All Mankind (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
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National Aeronautics & Space Administration, "Apollo 9 Excerpt 1" from The Apollo Missions (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
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