Group 3 (1963)
David Scott
Survived Gemini VIII’s emergency, walked on the Moon, and drove the first lunar rover.
David Scott flew three times: as Armstrong’s pilot on the near-disastrous Gemini VIII, as command module pilot on Apollo 9, and as commander of Apollo 15 — the first mission to use the lunar roving vehicle and the most scientifically ambitious landing of its era.
On the lunar surface, Scott performed the famous hammer-and-feather drop, proving Galileo right before a television audience. His three days at Hadley Rille set the template for the ‘J-missions’ that closed the Apollo program.