File:Schweickart Apollo 9 EVA (AS09-19-2982).jpg

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Description	Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, operates a 70mm Hasselblad camera during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission. The Command/Service Module and the Lunar Module 3 "Spider" are docked. This view was taken from the Command Module "Gumdrop". Schweickart, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is standing in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module porch. On his back, partially visible, are a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) and an Oxygen Purge System (OPS). Film magazine was A, film type was SO-368 Ektachrome with 0.460 - 0.710 micrometers film / filter transmittance response and haze filter,80mm lens.
Date	Taken on 6 March 1969
Source	NASA Image and Video Library
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:01, 16 June 2019	4,087 × 4,111 (1.56 MB)	Coffeeandcrumbs	Cropped 1 % horizontally using CropTool with lossless mode.
	02:56, 6 June 2019	4,111 × 4,111 (1.58 MB)	Kees08	Higher resolution; better edges.
	09:06, 4 October 2015	4,400 × 4,600 (1.8 MB)	0x010C	Transferred from Flickr via Flickr2Commons

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Image title	Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, operates a 70mm Hasselblad camera during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission. The Command/Service Module and the Lunar Module 3 "Spider" are docked. This view was taken form the Command Module "Gumdrop". Schweickart, wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is standing in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module porch. On his back, partially visible, are a Portable Life Support System (PLSS) and an Oxygen Purge System (OPS). Film magazine was A,film type was SO-368 Ektachrome with 0.460 - 0.710 micrometers film / filter transmittance response and haze filter,80mm lens.
Headline	Apollo 9 Mission image - Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, during EVA
Date and time of data generation	00:00, 3 March 1969
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File change date and time	15:38, 21 January 2009
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Date and time of digitizing	09:38, 21 January 2009
Date metadata was last modified	10:00, 26 October 2015
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Keywords	Apollo Apollo 9
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File:Schweickart Apollo 9 EVA (AS09-19-2982).jpg

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