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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
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.
In June 1972, a scandal involving the crew of NASA's Apollo 15 became publicly known. The crew—David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin—had carried about 400 unauthorized postal covers into space a
David Scott
…remained on the Moon for three days. Following their return to Earth, Scott and his crewmates fell from favor with NASA after it was disclosed that they had carried four hundred unauthorized postal covers to the Moon. After serving as director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California, Scott retired from the agency in 1977. Since then, he has worked on…
A "Sieger cover"
The Apollo 15 crew – left to right, David Scott, commander; Alfred Worden, command module pilot; James Irwin, Lunar Module pilot
Commander Scott cancels an envelope on the Moon