Apollo 9 - Historical Footage, Full Mission, Narration, HD, McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart

Documentary about the Apollo 9 mission, entirely based on historical narration, mission audio and footage. The full mission is covered, showing crew, training, launch, earth orbit operations, space suit and Lunar Module tests, reentry and splashdown. Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a Saturn V rocket, and was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). The mission was flown to qualify the LM for lunar orbit operations in preparation for the first Moon landing by demonstrating its descent and ascent propulsion systems, showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock with the CSM again, as would be required for the first crewed lunar landing. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. _______________________________________________________ CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Mission Objectives 0:01:10 Crew 0:05:43 Training 0:07:39 Hardware 0:09:39 Launch Preparations 0:14:38 Apollo 9 Launch 0:17:39 Day 1 (LM Extraction & Docking, S-IVB Ignition) 0:22:18 Day 2 (SPS Propulsion Burns) 0:23:21 Day 3 (LM Checkout & TV, Schweickart Space Sickness) 0:34:33 Day 4 (Extravehicular Activity, LM TV) 0:52:13 Day 5 (CSM & LM Rendezvous and Maneuvers) 1:05:15 Days 6 to 8 (Navigation and Earth Photography) 1:10:01 Day 9 (Alternate Recovery Zone) 1:10:30 Day 10 (Reentry, Splashdown, Recovery) 1:20:04 Mission Results ______________________________________________________ The footage was AI upscaled (Topaz AI) on some segments, besides the usual color correction. Ambient audio was recreated based on historical elements. Sequences are shown in proper mission context as much as possible. Historical narration (from mission commentary, NASA documentaries and progress reports, and TV and radio broadcasts sourced from LM5 are used in an attempt to capture the feeling of the times. Language and attitudes should be seen in that context. Research, cleanup, editing, and processing by Retro Space HD. ======================================= A special thanks to the channel supporters (   / retrospacehd   ): Andrew Rosenbaum Andrew Hamburg David Graves GSmith Gary Smith Gene Dorr Gio Pagliari Gort58 Jack Johnson Jan Strzelecki Jeff Pleimling Jules E Kevin Spencer Killraven Marco Zambianchi Mark Kirkman Michael Pennington Nathan Koga Popio Rick Durr Ryan Hardy Scott Manley Stephan ======================================== #apollo #documentary #nasa