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Apollo 9 (March 3–13, 1969) was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. ... Scott theorized that they were possibly in Chinese. [63]
David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon.Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander of a spacecraft that landed on the Moon.
David R. Scott – Second-seat veteran of Gemini 8, flew as Command Module Pilot on Apollo 9, and commanded the Apollo 15 lunar landing. Eugene A. Cernan – Second-seat veteran on Gemini 9A , flew as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 10 , and commanded the final lunar landing mission Apollo 17 .
Pilot of Gemini 4, died in the Apollo 1 fire; first American to perform a spacewalk; buried at West Point [4] [7] David Scott: 1954 Pilot of Gemini 8, Command Module Pilot of Apollo 9, and Commander of Apollo 15; walked on the Moon [4] [8] Donald H. Peterson: 1955 Mission Specialist on STS-6 [9] [10] Alfred Worden: 1955 Command Module Pilot of ...
Brett Cullen, who played Apollo 9 Command Module pilot and Apollo 15 commander David Scott, was invited to the Scott family home each time an episode he appeared in was first televised. Two short clips from the final scenes of Apollo 13 were used in "That's All There Is"; a splashdown sequence, and a view of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima ...
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.
In 1969, Stafford was the commander of Apollo 10, the second crewed mission to orbit the Moon and the first to fly a Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of 9 miles (14 km) above its surface. On the return to Earth, the Apollo 10 spacecraft achieved a speed of 24,791 miles per hour (39,897 km/h), setting the record for the ...
In March 1969 he was command module pilot of Apollo 9, the first crewed flight with a lunar module. He was backup commander of Apollo 12, and then, in July 1971, commander of Apollo 15, the fourth crewed lunar landing, and the first to use the Lunar Rover. Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.