[APOLLO 9] ROLL OUT. VINTAGE NASA "RED NUMBER" PHOTOGRAPH, 3 JANUARY 1969.

The Vintage NASA Photo Collection of Philip Kulpa

[APOLLO 9] 

ROLL OUT. 3 JANUARY 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 S-69-17487” printed in upper left margin in red; minor rubbing to corners.

An aerial view of the Apollo 9 space vehicle being moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 9 mission was the second to be launched by a Saturn V rocket, and the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft (the command and service module with the lunar module). Over a ten-day period, Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart, tested systems and procedures crucial to landing on the Moon.