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Chapter 10 Getting It All Together By George E. Mueller
The Apollo 9 and 10 missions were the learning phase of the program,
coming as they did between the first tests of the command module in
deep space
on Apollo 8 and the lunar landing of Apollo 11.
Apollo 9 and 10 were missions designed to rehearse all the steps
and
reproduce all the events of the Apollo 11 mission with the single
exception of
the lunar touchdown, stay, and liftoff. The command and service modules
and
the lunar module were used in flight procedures identical to those
that would
later take similar vehicles to the Moon and a landing. The flight
mechanics,
the mission support systems, the ...