Apollo 9 astronaut Russell L. Schweickart performs a spacewalk with a Hasselblad camera on the fourth day of the Earth-orbital mission. The Apollo 9 spacecraft, in the lunar mission configuration, was tested in Earth orbit. The mission was designed to rehearse all the steps and reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11 mission with the exception of the lunar touchdown, stay and liftoff. The Command and Service Module, and the Lunar Module were used in flight procedures identical to those that would later take similar vehicles to the moon. An optimised NASA image: Credit: NASA

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