David Scott
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 David Scott facts

• ), is an American engineer, retired U
• S
• Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut
• He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963
• As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon
• Before becoming an astronaut, Scott graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the United States Air Force
• He graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School (Class of 1963) and Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class of 1964)
• Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel, and more than 5,600 hours of logged flying time
• As an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under eleven hours in low Earth orbit
• Scott then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9, his second spaceflight, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart