Cape Canaveral, United States. 18th Oct, 2022. NASA Apollo 9 prime crew astronauts, left to right, Russell Schweickart, David Scott, and James McDivitt pose by the Saturn V rocket on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, February 23, 1969 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. McDivitt commanded the first Gemini spacewalk mission and commanded Apollo 9 during the first crewed orbital flight of a the lunar module, died October 15, 2022 at age 93. Credit: NASA/NASA/Alamy Live News

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