Cape Canaveral, United States. 18th Oct, 2022. NASA Apollo 9 prime crew astronauts, left to right, James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Schweickart pose in spacesuits during the Apollo Mission Simulator training at the Kennedy Space Center, February 17, 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

aeronautical engineer, aeronautics, aerospace industry, air force colonel, america, apollo 9, apollo mission, apollo spacecraft program manager, archive image, astronaut, astronaut group 2, brigadier general, cape canaveral, color image, colour image, crew member, crewed flight, david scott, florida, full-length, gemini 4, general view, historic, human spaceflight, indoors, inside, james a mcdivitt, james mcdivitt, jim mcdivitt, kennedy space center, lunar module 3, male, man, manned mission, manned spacecraft operations branch, mission commander, nasa, national aeronautics space administration, north america, planetary exploration, portrait, posing, pullman standard, rockwell international, russell schweickart, saturn 504, science, simulator training, space, space pioneer, space programme, spacecraft 104, spacesuit, standing, technology, test pilot, united states, usa, usaf, vertical,