The Last Time Humans Left the Moon

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🚀🌎 APOLLO 9: TESTING THE SPACECRAFT THAT WOULD TAKE HUMANITY TO THE MOON 🌕👨‍🚀 🇺🇸On March 3, 1969, NASA launched Apollo 9, one of the most important missions leading up to humanity’s first Moon landing! 🛰️✨ 👨‍🚀 Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart spent nearly 10 days in Earth orbit, putting critical Apollo technology to the test. 🌕 Apollo 9 marked the first crewed flight of the Lunar Module — the spacecraft designed to carry astronauts from lunar orbit down to