The present image was taken by Astronaut Russell Schweickart, the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 9 Mission. In the background of the image, the Earth is visible. Command/Service Modules and the ...

One shows astronaut Dave Scott wearing a red helmet as he climbs ... in Tyler's video really is one of those taken by the Apollo 9 crew or is from another source. Apollo 9 was a trial run for ...

Dave Scott almost never got to walk on the moon ... He also flew in 1969 on Apollo 9. A graduate of West Point and MIT and a retired Air Force Colonel, Scott is coauthor with Alexei Leonov of ...

Aboard Apollo 9 was Cmdr. James McDivitt, command module pilot Dave Scott and LM pilot Rusty Schweickart. As the NASA-produced Apollo 9 documentary "Three to Make Ready" from 1969 highlights ...

These astronauts led the way to finding things that are just Earth-shaking or Moon-shaking, as the case may be,” said Tina Cross, coordinator of external funding for the Columbus State University Coca ...

Unlike Apollo 8’s spectacular Moon voyage ... Rusty Schweickart, and Dave Scott into orbit to test the module’s fitness to land on the Moon and safely return. During the ten-day flight ...

Apollo 9 was an Earth-orbiting mission that tested ... The crew included Commander Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott and Russell Schweickart. After a launch on March 3, 1969, the crew spent 10 days in ...

Apollo 9 marked the first complete test of the Apollo ... When it did that, it kicked us in the back. Dave Scott and I went flying toward the instrument panel, and both of us stopped with our ...

Here, command module pilot Dave Scott emerges from the hatch of Apollo 9 to photograph the attached lunar module, which was flying in space for the first time. Photo Credits: NASA The module dubbed ...

Starting on March 3, the task of Apollo 9 was to find out. For a week the trio of James McDivitt, Dave Scott and Rusty Schweickart had to demonstrate that they could decouple the two modules ...

Photographs from astronaut Dave Scott's three space missions are on now on display at the Bo Bartlett Center in Columbus, Georgia through Aug. 2, 2025. The exhibition, titled "Images from Space that ...