[APOLLO 9] LUNAR MODULE "SPIDER" AFTER SEPARATION. VINTAGE NASA "RED NUMBER" PHOTOGRAPH, 3 MARCH 1969.

The Vintage NASA Photo Collection of Philip Kulpa

[APOLLO 9] 

LUNAR MODULE "SPIDER" AFTER SEPARATION. 3 MARCH 1969.

Vintage NASA “Red Number” chromogenic color photograph, 10 by 8 inches, “A Kodak Paper” watermark, press captions in purple to verso. NASA image ID “NASA AS9-19-2914” printed in upper left margin in red.

The Lunar Module "Spider," still attached to the Saturn V third state, here photographed from the Command Module "Gumdrop" on the first day of Apollo 9's earth-orbital mission. Inside the Gumdrop were Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart.