Apollo 9
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Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program, which successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McD
CM pilot David Scott performs a stand-up EVA from CM Gumdrop, seen from docked LM Spider
Left to right: McDivitt, Scott, SchweickartApollo program← Apollo 8Apollo 10 →
Apollo 9 space-flown silver Robbins medallion
McDivitt, Scott, and Schweickart train for the AS-205/208 mission in the first Block II spacecraft and space suits, which still had most of the fire hazards the Apollo 1 spacecraft had.
David Scott
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David Randolph Scott 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
Apollo 9
…successfully tested systems and procedures critical to landing on the Moon. The three-man crew consisted of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart. Flown in low Earth orbit, it was the second crewed Apollo mission that the United States launched via a…
Scott in 1971
Scott in 1964
Scott (right) and Neil Armstrong (center) train for water egress.
The prime and backup crews for Apollo 1. Scott is standing at left.