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Russell Schweickart

David Scott emerging from the open hatch of the CM Gumdrop during the first American two-man EVA

Apollo 9, March 3-13, 1969, orbit 46, 073:07:00 to 073:45:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS9-20- 3071” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

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James McDivitt

David Scott’s stand-up EVA in the open hatch of the CM Gumdrop

Apollo 9, March 3-13, 1969, orbit 46, 073:07:00 to 073:45:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption numbered “AS9-20-3077” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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“Gleaming in the sunlight, Spider and Gumdrop are hard docked while two of the three-man crew venture outside. CM Pilot David Scott, breathing through an umbilical connection, pokes his head out the Command Module hatch. The picture was taken by LM Pilot Rusty Schweickart (who wore an independent life-support pack) while perched on the Lunar Module’s front porch” (NASA SP-350, p.186).

Apollo 9 EVA provided the only photographs of the hard docked LM and CSM in the entire Apollo program, showing the Apollo spacecraft in its configuration for the translunar journey.

David Scott performed another stand-up EVA on Apollo 15 but this time on the surface of the Moon when he opened the top hatch of the LM to observe the lunar landscape after landing.

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Not only did McDivitt photograph Ed White’s first American EVA on Gemini 4 in June 1965 but he also became the photographer of the first American two-man EVA on Apollo 9, picturing both astronauts Schweickart and Scott from the LM Spider docked with the CM Gumdrop.
McDivitt took this photograph through the docking window of the LM after Schweickart exchanged the only Hasselblad available to the LM crew for a movie camera. The open hatch of the Command Module is reflected in Scott’s visor.

From the mission transcript during the EVA:

073:24:03 Scott (Gumdrop): Okay. I’m going to let the camera run here.
073:24:08 Schweickart (PLSS): Dave, come on out, wherever you are.
073:24:10 Scott (Gumdrop): Stand by. Let me get away my little pushbutton. Now we’re all taking pictures of everybody taking pictures.