Editing Apollo 9 (section)

== Framework ==
=== Crew and key Mission Control personnel ===
{{Spaceflight crew
|terminology      = Astronaut
|references       = <ref name=nasmcrew>{{cite web|title=Apollo 9 Crew|url=http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo9-crew.cfm|publisher=National Air and Space Museum|access-date=May 10, 2015}}</ref>
|position1        = Commander
|crew1_up         = [[James McDivitt|James A. McDivitt]]
|flights1_up      = Second and last
|position2        = Command Module Pilot (CMP)
|crew2_up         = [[David Scott|David R. Scott]]
|flights2_up      = Second
|position3        = Lunar Module Pilot (LMP)
|crew3_up         = [[Rusty Schweickart|Russell L. Schweickart]]
|flights3_up      = Only
}}

McDivitt was in the Air Force; selected as a member of [[NASA Astronaut Group 2|the second group of astronauts]] in 1962, he was command pilot of [[Gemini 4]] (1965).{{sfn|Press Kit|pp=94–95}} Scott, also Air Force, was selected in [[NASA Astronaut Group 3|the third astronaut group]] in 1963 and flew alongside Neil Armstrong in [[Gemini 8]], on which the first [[docking and berthing of spacecraft|spacecraft docking]] was performed.{{sfn|Press Kit|pp=96–97}} Schweickart, a civilian who had served in the Air Force and [[Massachusetts Air National Guard]], was selected as a Group{{nbsp}}3 astronaut but was not assigned to a Gemini mission and had no spaceflight experience.{{sfn|Press Kit|p=98}}

The backup crew consisted of [[Pete Conrad]] as commander, Command Module Pilot [[Richard F. Gordon Jr.]], and Lunar Module Pilot [[Alan Bean|Alan L. Bean]]. This crew flew as prime on [[Apollo 12]] in November 1969. The support crew for Apollo{{nbsp}}9 consisted of [[Stuart Roosa|Stuart A. Roosa]], [[Jack R. Lousma]], [[Edgar Mitchell|Edgar D. Mitchell]] and [[Alfred Worden|Alfred M. Worden]]. Lousma was not an original member of the Apollo{{nbsp}}9 support crew, but was assigned after [[Fred Haise|Fred W. Haise Jr.]] was moved to the position of backup lunar module pilot on Apollo 8—several astronauts were shifted in the wake of [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] being removed from the Apollo{{nbsp}}8 prime crew because of treatment for [[bone spur]]s.<ref name="chariots_training" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap09fj/000_preparations.html|title=Preparations for Launch|work=Apollo Flight Journal|last1=Woods|first1=David|last2=Vignaux|first2=Andrew|publisher=NASA|access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref>

The flight directors were [[Gene Kranz]], first shift, [[Gerry Griffin]], second shift, and [[Pete Frank]], third shift. [[Flight controller#CAPCOM|Capsule communicators]] were Conrad, Gordon, Bean, Worden, Roosa and [[Ronald Evans (astronaut)|Ronald Evans]].{{sfn|Orloff & Harland|p=224}}

=== Mission insignia ===
[[File:Apollo 9 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion (SN-260).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Both sides of a silver medal|Apollo{{nbsp}}9 space-flown silver [[NASA space-flown Robbins medallions of the Apollo missions|Robbins medallion]]]]

The circular patch shows a drawing of a Saturn V rocket with the letters USA on it. To its right, an Apollo CSM is shown next to a LM, with the CSM's nose pointed at the "front door" of the LM rather than at its top docking port. The CSM is trailing rocket fire in a circle. The crew's names are along the top edge of the circle, with APOLLO [[Roman numerals|IX]] at the bottom. The "D" in McDivitt's name is filled with red to mark that this was the "D{{nbsp}}mission" in the alphabetic sequence of Apollo missions. The patch was designed by Allen Stevens of [[Rockwell International]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Ed |last=Hengeveld |url=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-052008a.html |title=The man behind the Moon mission patches |publisher=collectSPACE |date=May 20, 2008 |access-date=July 18, 2009}} "A version of this article was published concurrently in the [[British Interplanetary Society]]'s ''[[Spaceflight (magazine)|Spaceflight]]'' magazine."</ref>