Thursday, April 2, 2015

Apollo 9 - UFO sighted

It is so interesting to read about the Apollo Missions and the astronauts who flew them. Did you know that one of the Apollo 9 astronauts actually cited a UFO? I need someone who will make this fun mission and the guy who spotted the UFO, Brigadier General James Alton "Jim" McDivitt. The other two astronauts have been scooped up already.

Apollo 9, the third manned Apollo mission, was the first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). Its three-person crew; Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart;  tested several critical aspects to landing on the Moon, including the Lunar Module engines, backpack life support systems, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers. The mission was the second manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. The crew spent 10 days in low Earth orbit, performing the first manned flight of a Lunar Module, docking and undocking of a Lunar Module for the first time, walking in space twice and docking two manned spacecrafts for the second time. The mission allowed the Lunar Module to be approved for further missions.

Brigadier General James Alton "Jim" McDivitt (born June 10, 1929) is a retired test pilot, US Air Force pilot, and aeronautical engineer. As a NASA astronaut , he flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He commanded the Gemini 4 flight during which Edward H. White performed the first U.S. spacewalk. During that flight, he took a photo of what is considered to be the only UFO ever spotted on a Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo mission. On Apollo 9 he was the commander. He later became Manager of Lunar Landing Operations and was the Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager from 1969 to 1972. 

 Check out this YouTube of it as they saw it in space.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb7Gtufrc1E#t=16      UFO video


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