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elliptical medium Earth orbit in early 1969, the mission profile was changed in August 1968 to a more ambitious command-module-only lunar orbital flight to be flown in December, as the lunar module was not yet ready to make its first flight. Astronaut Jim McDivitt's crew, who were training to fly the first Lunar Module flight in low Earth orbit, became the crew for the Apollo{{nbsp}}9 mission, and Borman's crew were moved to the

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