Apollo 9 is the one of only two Apollo Command Module flown in space on display west of the Rocky Mountains. The spacecraft was moved on May 18, 2004 from its former home at the Michigan Space and Science Centre, where it had been on exhibit for over two decades, and carefully transported to the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The exhibit opened to the public on July 21st, 2004 - the day after the 35th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing. Built by the North American Rockwell Space Systems Division in Downey, CA, the spacecraft, named "Gumdrop" by its crew, currently resides in the Museum's Rotunda, enabling visitors a close look at this vital piece of American space flight history. he Apollo 9 crew consisted of Gemini program veterans James McDivitt as Mission Commander, Dave Scott as Command Module Pilot, and rookie Russell L. Schweickart as the Lunar Module Pilot. During a 10-day mission launched March 3, 1969, the crew accomplished the first tests of the Lunar Module, or LM, that would take a crew to the surface of the Moon

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