1-154-926 - NASA/Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Apollo 9 astronauts, 1968. Russell Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, David Scott, Command Module pilot and James McDivitt, Commander, are dressed in spacesuits during a ground-based training exercise. Apollo 9, launched on 3 March 1969, carried the first complete Apollo spacecraft into earth orbit. The first docking of the Command and Service Module with the Lunar Module was carried out on this mission.