Caption:
March 3, 1969 - The Lunar Module (LM) Spider, still attached to the Saturn V third (S-IVB) stage, is photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) Gumdrop on the first day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. This picture was taken following CSM/LM-S-IVB separation and prior to LM extraction from the S-IVB. The Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA) panels have already been jettisoned.