Apollo 9 Gumdrop (CSM-104) prior docking with the Lunar Module Spider (LM-3).

Date: March 7, 1969

View of Apollo 9 Command Module Gumdrop (CSM-104) prior docking with the Lunar Module Spider (LM-3).

Date: March 7, 1969

View of the Saturn V S-IVB stage from the Apollo 9 Command Module (CSM-104) Gumdrop as it floats from the spacecraft.

Date: March 5, 1969

Interior view of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Kennedy Space Center, during the move of Apollo 9 Command and Service Module (CSM-104) Gumdrop from workstand to transfer stand prior to mating to Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA-12A).

Date: November 30, 1968

Astronaut Russell Schweickart photographed during EVA

"Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, stands in 'golden slippers' on the Lunar Module porch during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. This photograph was taken from inside the Lunar Module 'Spider'. The Command and Service Modules were docked to the LM. Schweickart is wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). Inside the "Spider" was astronaut James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 crew commander. Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot, remained at the controls of the Command Module, 'Gumdrop.'"

Date: March 6, 1969

View of docked Apollo 9 Command/Service Module and Lunar Module

"Excellent view of the docked Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM), with Earth in the background, during astronaut David R. Scott's stand-up extravehicular activity (EVA), on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. Scott, command module pilot, is standing in the open hatch of the Command Module (CM). Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of Scott from the porch of the LM. Inside the LM was astronaut James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander."

Date: March 6, 1969

In a space first, Apollo 9’s lunar module Spider (LM-3) flew 150km before redocking with the command module Gumdrop (CSM-104).

Date: March 7, 1969

"The Apollo 9 Command/Service Modules 'Gumdrop' photographed through the window from the Lunar Module, 'Spider',on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission. The docking mechanism is visible in the nose of the Command Module."

Date: March 3, 1969