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Could someone give me some info on apollo 9

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e.g average speed to get there, the payload, what type of fuel and distance travvelled for the mission. you dont have to answer all of them but plz answer the ones you can.

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  1. This should cover the basics:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_9

    If you look at the "Summary of Maneuvers", you can see the times of plenty of critical points. The masses of various modules are also there.

    As far as the type of fuel used, the link to the Saturn V rocket should be the most useful.


  2. See the reference below for Apollo minutiae.

    EDIT 1:

    No, liquid oxygen (LOX) and hydrazine was not the propellant formulation.

    The Saturn V first stage used LOX and RP-1, a grade of kerosene we still use today as rocket fuel.  The second and third stages used LOX and liquid hydrogen.  The ullage motors and launch-escape motor were solid-fueled.

    The service module main engine used nitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine.  So did its RCS, but from a separate fuel supply.  The command module steering thrusters also used this fuel formulation, but not until it had separated.

    The lunar module ascent, descent, and steering motors used nitrogen tetroxide and a mixed fuel trade-named Aerozine 50: a mixture of hydrazine and unsymmetric dimethyl hydrazine.

    The nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine variants are hypergolic, meaning they ignite spontaneously when the components are mixed.  The Saturn V propellants require explicit ignition.

  3. the first and second stages used liquid hydrazine and liquid oxygen

  4. Apollo 9 remained in Earth orbit (it never went towards the moon) for 10 days. Its objective was to test the moon gear.


  5. they checked out the lm in earth orbit. astronuts got in it, flew it around then got back in the csm.

    nasa have extensive information on their web site. please have a look.

    later: as a matter of fact this *is* rocket scince.

  6. Do you really expect someone to provide this info off the top of their head?  Go look it up yourself, you lazy so-and-so.  This is the internet.  It is all at your fingertips.  You don’t even have to remember a URL – just Google it.  

    It aint rocket science.

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