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David Scott
 
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David Scott |
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Born on: |
6 Jun 1932 |
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Join NASA in: |
17 Oct 1963 |
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Current status: |
Retired 30 Oct 1977 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Gemini 8 |
Pilot |
16.03. - 17.03.1966 |
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Apollo 9 |
CMP |
03.03. - 13.03.1969 |
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Apollo 15 |
Cmdr |
26.07. - 07.08.1971 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
David Scott was one of the
third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963.
On March 16, 1966, he and command pilot Neil Armstrong
were launched into space on the Gemini 8 mission--a flight
originally scheduled to last three days but terminated
early due to a malfunctioning thruster. The crew performed
the first successful docking of two vehicles in space and
demonstrated great piloting skill in overcoming the
thruster problem and bringing the spacecraft to a safe
landing.
Scott served as command module pilot for Apollo 9, March
3-13, 1969. This was the third manned flight in the Apollo
series, the second to be launched by a Saturn V, and the
first to complete a comprehensive earth-orbital
qualification and verification test of a "fully configured
Apollo spacecraft." The ten-day flight provided vital
information previously not available on the operational
performance, stability, and reliability of lunar module
propulsion and life support systems. Highlight of this
evaluation was completion of a critical lunar-orbit
rendezvous simulation and subsequent docking, initiated by
James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart from within the
lunar module at a separation distance which exceeded 100
miles from the command/service module piloted by Scott.
The crew also demonstrated and confirmed the operational
feasibility of crew transfer and extravehicular activity
techniques and equipment, with Schweickart completing a
46-minute EVA outside the lunar module. During this period,
Dave Scott completed a 1-hour stand-up EVA in the open
command module hatch photographing Schweickart's
activities and also retrieving thermal samples from the
command module exterior. Apollo 9 splashed down less than
four miles from the helicopter carrier USS GUADALCANAL.
In his next assignment, Scott was designated backup
spacecraft commander for Apollo 12.
He made his third space flight as spacecraft commander of
Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971. His companions on the
flight were Alfred M. Worden (command module pilot) and
James B. Irwin (lunar module pilot). Apollo 15 was the
fourth manned lunar landing mission and the first to visit
and explore the moon's Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains
which are located on the southeast edge of the Mare
Imbrium (Sea of Rains). The lunar module, "Falcon,"
remained on the lunar surface for 66 hours and 54 minutes
(setting a new record for lunar surface stay time) and
Scott and Irwin logged 18 hours and 35 minutes each in
extravehicular activities conducted during three separate
excursions onto the lunar surface. Using "Rover-1" to
transport themselves and their equipment along portions of
Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains, Scott and Irwin
performed a selenological inspection and survey of the
area and collected 180 pounds of lunar surface materials.
They deployed an ALSEP package which involved the
emplacement and activation of surface experiments, and
their lunar surface activities were televised using a TV
camera which was operated remotely by ground controllers
stationed in the mission control center located at
Houston, Texas. Other Apollo 15 achievements include:
largest payloads ever placed into earth and lunar orbits;
first scientific instrument module bay flown and operated
on an Apollo spacecraft; longest distance traversed on
lunar surface; first use of a lunar surface navigation
device (mounted on Rover-1); first subsatellite launched
in lunar orbit; and first extravehicular (EVA) from a
command module during transearth coast. The latter feat
performed by Worden during three excursions to "Endeavour's"
SIM-bay where he retrieved film cassettes from the
panoramic and mapping cameras and reported his personal
observations of the general condition of equipment housed
there. Apollo 15 concluded with a Pacific Ocean splashdown
and subsequent recovery by the USS OKINAWA.
He has logged 546 hours and 54 minutes in space, of which
20 hours and 46 minutes were in Extravehicular Activity.
He is only one of three Astronauts who have flown both
earth orbital and lunar Apollo Missions.
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