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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Randolph (Dave) Scott was born on June 6 ... He then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9. Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of ...

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 ...