Apollo 9 was launched on March 3, 1969 and returned to earth 10 days later.
Spider was the name of the Apollo 9 lunar module. However, the first LM was not on Apollo 9, it was on Apollo 5 (AS-205) an unmanned test.
Apollo 9 only orbited Earth. It did not go to the moon. It was used to do some tests including a space walk to test the space suits, and trying to connect the command module and lunar module together in space.
The space mission leading to Apollo 11 were Apollo7, 8, 9, and Apollo10.
The Apollo mission continued from the 1960s until the 1990s
The Apollo space missions are numbered from Apollo 7 to 17.
There were a total of 15 manned flights as part of the Apollo space program. These flights included 6 missions that landed on the Moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) and 9 missions that orbited the Earth and Moon but did not land.
Apollo 11 launched on July 16, 1969 at 9:32 AM EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 AM EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
On Apollo 11, about eight days.
There was no space shuttle on Apollo 11
Apollo 11 went into space in 1969.
Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbital test of the lunar module, crucial for the upcoming Moon landings. The mission included testing the docking and undocking procedures with the command module in space, as well as testing the performance of both the lunar module and the command module systems.