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Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander, dies at 93
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WASHINGTON (AP) — James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the spacewalk became iconic images. He passed on a chance to land on the moon and instead became the space agency’s program manager for five Apollo missions after the Apollo 11 moon landing. McDivitt died Thursday in Tucson, Arizona, NASA said Monday. In his first flight in 1965, McDivitt reported seeing “something out there’’ about the shape of a beer can flying outside h

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