Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Apollo 9/archive2
Wehwalt, happy to do a blurb for this one if you want one. - Dank (push to talk) 04:07, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
- If you want to take a shot at it, I'll then polish it. Thanks.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:12, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third crewed mission in the United States Apollo program. Launched by a Saturn V rocket and flown in Low Earth Orbit, the mission flight-qualified the Lunar Module, showing that its crew could fly it independently, then rendezvous and dock, as would be required for Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing. Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. A spacewalk tested the extravehicular life support backpack. McDivitt and Schweickart, in passing from command to lunar module through the docking tunnel, became the first humans to pass between spacecraft without going outside them, two months after Soviet cosmonauts spacewalked to transfer between Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. Apollo 9, a complete success, was followed by Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. (Full article...)
There you go. Polish away. - Dank (push to talk) 14:44, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
- I've shifted the emphasis a bit. Let me know how you like it.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
- One tweak. Looks great. - Dank (push to talk) 15:12, 30 June 2019 (UTC)