NASA Photo ID: S69-19793           File Name: 10075008.jpg
  Film Type: 8x10                    Date Taken: 02/20/69
  Title: Artist concept illustrating key events on day by day basis during Apollo 9
  Description:
  Artist concept illustrating key events on day by day basis during Apollo 9 
  mission. First photograph illustrates activities on the first day of the 
  mission, including flight crew preparation, orbital insertion, 103 north
  mile  orbit, separations, docking and docked Service Propulsion System Burn 
  (19792); Second day events include landmark tracking, pitch maneuver, 
  yaw-roll maneuver, and high apogee orbits (19793); Third day events include 
  crew transfer and Lunar Module system evaluation (19794); Fourth day events 
  include use of camera, day-night extravehicular activity, use of golden 
  slippers, and television over Texas and Louisiana (19795); Fifth day events 
  include vehicles undocked, Lunar Module burns for rendezvous, maximum 
  separation, ascent propulsion system burn, formation flying and docking,
  and  Lunar Module jettison ascent burn (19796); Sixth thru ninth day events 
  include service propulsion system burns and landmark sightings, photograph 
  special tests (19797); Tenth day events include Command Module/Service
  Module  separations, reentry, and Atlantic splashdown (19798).       
  
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