Austin Scott (politician)
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Bachelor of science from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1964; master of science in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, 1962; one honorary doctorate; Colonel, USAF , Ret.; test pilot; selected in 1963 as Military Astronaut - Class 4; later own firm (Scott Science and Technology, Inc., Los Angeles). Last update on April 18, 2018.
Jul 15, 2019 · 363K views 4 years ago. During Apollo 15, astronaut David Scott dropped a feather (in his left hand) and a hammer (in his right) to show that objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same rate...
Jul 27, 2021 · NASA. Most lunar samples returned to Earth by the final Apollo missions never would have been collected if the astronauts had not brought a car with them. NASA. David R. Scott, commander of...
Mar 7, 2024 · Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot for the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission, stands in the command module’s open hatch during his stand-up spacewalk on March 6, 1969. Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, took this photograph of Scott while also performing a spacewalk.
Nov 3, 2023 · David R. Scott. Commander. As a NASA astronaut, Scott flew on Gemini 8, Apollo 9, and was Spacecraft Commander on Apollo 15. He logged 546 hours and 54 minutes in space, of which 20 hours and 46 minutes were in extravehicular activity. Scott later became the Director of NASA’s Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA.
A conversation with NASA astronaut David Scott.Get it on DVD here: http://bit.ly/ShopAstronautFarmerConnect with Warner Bros. Entertainment Online:Follow War...
Commander of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission, it was the first to use a lunar rover. David R. Scott flew on Gemini VIII, was Command Module pilot on Apollo 9, and drove the first Lunar Rover on the moon as Commander of Apollo 15. Scott was born on June 6, 1932, in San Antonio, Texas.
