Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott Day Program & Patches San Antonio Texas 1971

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Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott Day Program and Patches, San Antonio Texas September 3rd, 1971
This is the day San Antonio Texas, Honored its native son David Scott for his accomplishments in space and his Moon Landing!
Condition:
Used with some staining. No folds, dog ears, tears, or writing.
3 inch and 4 inch Apollo 15 mission emblem patches
Condition:
Very good used condition with the 4 inch patch. The 3 inch patch exhibits some yellowing
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Col.
David Randolph Scott,
USAF
, Ret.
is a retired
test pilot
and
NASA
astronaut
who was the
seventh person to walk on the Moon
. The commander of
Apollo 15
, Scott was selected as an astronaut as part of the
third group
in 1963. Scott flew three times in space, and is the only living commander of an Apollo mission that landed on the Moon and one of four surviving Moon walkers. Following the deaths of
James Irwin
in 1991 and
Alfred Worden
in 2020, Scott is now the last surviving crew member of Apollo 15.
Before becoming an astronaut, Scott still wanted to fly, and wanted to be commissioned in the newly established
Air Force
. The
Air Force Academy
was founded in 1954, the year Scott graduated from West Point; an interim arrangement had been made whereby a quarter of West Point and
United States Naval Academy
graduates could volunteer to be commissioned as Air Force officers. Earning a
Bachelor of Science
degree in
military science
, Scott graduated 5th in his class of 633, and was commissioned in the Air Force.
After serving as a fighter pilot in Europe, he graduated from the
Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School
(Class 62C) and the
Aerospace Research Pilot School
(Class IV).
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
. He would have been the second American astronaut to walk in space had Gemini 8 not made an emergency abort. Scott then spent ten days in orbit in March 1969 as
Command Module
Pilot of
Apollo 9
, a mission that extensively tested the Apollo spacecraft, along with Commander
James McDivitt
and
Lunar Module
Pilot
Rusty Schweickart
.
After backing up
Apollo 12
, Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed lunar landing and the first J mission. Scott and
James Irwin
remained on the Moon for three days. Following their return to Earth, Scott and his crewmates fell from favor with NASA after it was disclosed they
had carried 400 unauthorized postal covers to the Moon
. After serving as director of NASA's
Dryden Flight Research Center
in California, Scott retired from the agency in 1977. Since then, he has worked on a number of space-related projects and served as consultant for several films about the space program, including
Apollo 13
.
Scott retired from the Air Force in 1975 with the rank of colonel, and more than 5,600 hours of logged flying time.
Dave Scott was born June 6, 1932, at
Randolph Field
(for which he received his middle name) near
San Antonio
,
Texas
. His father was
Tom William Scott
(1902–1988), a fighter pilot in the
United States Army Air Corps
who would rise to the rank of
brigadier general
; his mother was the former Marian Scott (
née
Davis; 1906–1998). Scott lived his earliest years at Randolph Field, where his father was stationed, before moving to an air base in Indiana, and then in 1936 to Manila in the Philippines, then under U.S. rule. David remembered his father as a strict disciplinarian. The family returned to the United States in December 1939. By the time of the
attack on Pearl Harbor
in 1941, the family was living in San Antonio again; shortly thereafter Tom Scott was deployed overseas.
Later in life, David Scott wanted an appointment to the
United States Military Academy
at West Point, but lacked connections to secure one. He took a government
civil service examination
for competitive appointments and accepted a swimming scholarship to the
University of Michigan
where he was an honor student in the
engineering school
. In the spring of 1950, he received and accepted an invitation to attend West Point. Scott attended Michigan on a swimming scholarship, set a freshman record in the 440-yard
freestyle
, and the team captain during Scott's year there, Jack Craigie, recalled that the West Point swimming coach, Gordon Chalmers, was happy to get Scott from Michigan, one of the dominant programs of the time.
Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971)
was the ninth crewed mission in the United States'
Apollo program
and the fourth to
land on the Moon
. It was the first
J mission
, with a longer stay on the
Moon
and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 saw the first use of the
Lunar Roving Vehicle
.
The mission began on July 26 and ended on August 7, with the lunar surface exploration taking place between July 30 and August 2.
Commander
David Scott
and
Lunar Module Pilot
James Irwin
landed near
Hadley Rille
and explored the local area using the rover, allowing them to travel further from the
lunar module
than had been possible on previous missions. They spent 181⁄2 hours on the Moon's surface on
extravehicular activity
(EVA), and collected 170 pounds (77 kg) of surface material.
At the same time,
Command Module Pilot
Alfred Worden
orbited the Moon, operating the sensors in the
scientific instrument module
(SIM) bay of the
service module
. This suite of instruments collected data on the Moon and its environment using a panoramic camera, a
gamma-ray spectrometer
, a mapping camera, a laser
altimeter
, a
mass spectrometer
, and a lunar sub satellite deployed at the end of the moonwalks. The lunar module returned safely to the command module and, at the end of Apollo 15's 74th
lunar orbit
, the engine was fired for the journey home. During the return trip, Worden performed the first
spacewalk
in deep space. The Apollo 15 mission splashed down safely on August 7 despite the loss of one of its three parachutes.
The mission saw the collection of the
Genesis Rock
, thought to be part of the Moon's early
crust
, and Scott's use of a hammer and a feather to validate
Galileo's theory
that when there is no air resistance, objects fall at the same rate due to gravity regardless of their mass.
Crew
Position
Astronaut
Commander
David R. Scott
Third and last spaceflight
Command module pilot (CMP)
Alfred M. Worden
Only spaceflight
Lunar module pilot (LMP)
James B. Irwin
Only spaceflight