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This section could use more detail. Also, it's not exactly NPOV. (Although I agree with the POV taken, it's unencylopaedic.) --Apascover 22:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
I see this section states, as I have seen in other online sources, the "punishment" doled out to the Apollo 15 astronauts was that they "never flew in space again". Unfortunately, the list of other Apollo moonflight astronauts who "never flew in space again" is as follows: Frank Borman, Bill Anders, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Richard Gordon, James Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, Al Shepard, Stu Roosa, Ed Mitchell, Dave Scott, Al Worden, Jim Irwin, Charlie Duke, Gene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt. I simply don't believe it's significant that Scott, Worden and Irwin never flew again unless there's specific evidence that any of them had wished to (and Irwin was ruled out anyway because of his heart condition). In fact the only Apollo-era astronauts to fly any post-Moon missions at all are Tom Stafford, Deke Sleyton, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, John Young, Ken Mattingly, Joe Engle (who was bumped from Apollo 17, but flew the Shuttle), and John Glenn, who flew the Shuttle at the age of 77. An impressive list, but at 8 - only 3 of whom actually walked on the moon - not that many out of the original list of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts. Silas Maxfield (talk) 14:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be useful to write about the hammer and feather experiment. It's certainly notable.
--98.14.113.232 (talk) 04:03, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Technically, it's more a demonstration than an experiment, because there was never any doubt about what the result would be, and it was performed for educational purposes, not to discover anything new.
Also, it's covered in the Apollo 15 article.
47.139.40.107 (talk) 20:34, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
David Scott has concerns about this article's accuracy, though it's not immediately clear to me what those are. See http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/sculpture_on_the_moon_paul_van_hoeydonck_s_fallen_astronaut.html. Somebody here might simply get in touch with him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Publicsworks (talk • contribs) 16:28, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
Only after the post-Apollo hangover had subsided did NASA reconsider its position regarding the postage stamp incident. A 1978 investigation by the Attorney General’s Office largely exonerated Scott, Worden, and Irwin. Five years later, NASA returned the stamp covers to the astronauts, effectively rescinding the accusations.
Daniel Case (talk) 01:53, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
This section is way too long. I think it's actually longer than the main article. I would suggest cutting it back to at most two paragraphs. Kendall-K1 (talk) 12:55, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
But, in retrospect, the original article leaves a lot to be desired, as well. I will probably have to rewrite it, too. Or maybe just transfer the bulk of what I wrote here to it. Daniel Case (talk) 23:22, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, checking Apollo 15 and List_of_spacewalks_and_moonwalks_1965–1999 and their relevant sources, I come to the conclusion that David Scott performed a total of 5 EVAs:
Therefore: 5 EVAs, total EVA time should be 20 hr, 24 min 53 sec.
I am correcting the article accordingly. Golan's mom--Golan's mom 09:08, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
I suggest using something like:
| caption = (1971 photo)
to indicate that the photo is not a recent photo. Its understood why iconic photographs are preferred, but then they should be dated. (Arrived here by way of the video on the 'gravity' article.) -Inowen (nlfte) 06:15, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
The account of the Fallen Astronaut statue debacle as written here seems heavily biased toward the artist's side, giving short shrift to Scott's and NASA's side of the story. Yes, it seems to be well-sourced with the Slate article, but the paraphrase written here doesn't seem to give sufficient weight to Scott's side of the story (as the reasonably balanced Slate article seems to). NASA has always had a policy against commercial exploitation of government space programs, and Scott's intent was to keep in the spirit of that policy, memorializing the dead astronauts and cosmonauts without publicity or profit to the artist. My understanding to now has been that the artist, not Scott, was the one who misunderstood the agreement made at their first meeting, though admittedly communication must have been poor. Check out the Fallen Astronaut Wikipedia page, which may be a little light and probably could benefit from expansion using the Slate article as a source. JustinTime55 (talk) 21:12, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
The opportunity to go into the Air Force was competed for, but Scott graduated 5th in his class of 633, and because of his high standing in the class, he was able to choose the Air Force.
@Wehwalt: This is not wrong, but I think it is misleading. In each West Point class of the era, the the graduates publicly nominated which arm or service they wanted to go into, in class rank order. Each arm had only a certain number of places, so in that sense it was competitive. Put simply, at 5th place, Scott could have taken anything he wanted. Normally, the top graduates went into the Corps of Engineers (in some wartime classes they weren't given a choice). Scott's class of 1954 was no exception; of the top 25, the engineers took 10; four chose the Air Force; three chose the infantry; three chose armour; and five chose artillery. Of the 633 in the class, about a quarter went into the Air Force. How low could you go and still get into the Air Force? 631st out of 633 apparently. Note how Scott is wearing his West Point class ring in the infobox photo. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:04, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
Another bit that could use a re-phrase: Scott would fly the most space missions (three) of the Group 3 astronauts
Gene Cernan also flew three missions (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17). Also, the bit about him being in the class of 1962 from the Test Pilot School is misleading; there were normally three classes a year. He was in 62-C, which graduated in April 1963. Also: is July really "late summer" in the U.S.? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:41, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:21, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
Improved to Good Article status by Wehwalt (talk). Nominated by Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) at 11:37, 28 May 2019 (UTC).
Hello Wehwalt, I've just made a few tweaks and have a couple of questions.
Thanks for any help. JennyOz (talk) 14:21, 22 July 2019 (UTC)