1) The Virtual World Aerospace Museum view of Apollo IX and the actual Apollo IX mission MOON is being made as part of a Web - DVD art project by Benjamin Britton at The University of Cincinnati for additional information, see the CERHAS MOON Project pages and the official NASA Apollo IX archives. To visit MOON on the Internet, download and install Active Worlds and teleport to the world MOON.
Rusty on orbit, March 1969
Entering a virtual world dedicated to Apollo IX, June 1999
Apollo 9 inside the CERHAS "moon" virtual world museum
Another view of Apollo 9 with virtual Astronaut Russell Schweickart
Astronaut Russell Schweickart during actual EVA
Apollo 9 Lunar Module in lunar landing configuration
2) Journey with Astronaut Russell Schweickart on
Virtual Apollo IX
on orbit March 3 - 13, 1969
and in cyberspace 30 years later in 1999
Bruce Damer and Rusty Schweickart floating around the third stage of the Saturn V, a vehicle that Rusty rode to orbit in March 1969
Rusty Schweickart in an orange suited "Gagarin" avatar outside of the hatch of the Command/Service Module, June 17
1999 Rusty Schweickart in his lunar suit avatar entering the Command Module, "a tight squeeze in here" he says speaking from experience
Rusty in the vicinity of the CSM Rusty on the virtual moon next to the Lunar Excursion Module
Rusty next to an instrument on the virtual moon and landing reinactment area Rusty entering the airlock in a virtual Skylab, with no surfaces on internal walls
