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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scott flew again on Apollo 9, which featured the first docking between ... (ECW Press, 2022) is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams.

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 ...

This article is more than 9 years old ... In addition to Dave Scott’s Bulova watch, other space items were auctioned by RR, including Scott’s Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Rover map that sold ...