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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Apollo 9 Astronauts James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, and Russell L. Schweickart breakfast with guests in their crew quarters of few hours before their launch into Earth orbit to test the Lunar Module spacecraft. Left to right across the table are Brig. Gen. C.H. Bolender, Scott, Schweickart, and Alan Shepard, Chief of the Astronaut Office and America's first man in space. Foreground, second from left, is Kenneth Kleinknect astronaut McDivitt his clergyman from Nassau Bay, Texas, The Rev. Laurence Connelly and George Skurla, Grumman Aircraft base manager at the spaceport. Grumman builds the Lunar Module spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA