David Armstronaut Research Paper

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The astronaut I'm researching about is David Randolph "Dave" Scott. He was born June 6, 1932, in San Antonio, Texas. He was married and had two children. He graduated from Western High School, in Washington, D.C., and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy. He also graduated from the Air Force Experimental Test Pilots School and Aerospace Research Pilots School. When he was with NASA he went on three space missions. They were Apollo 9, Gemini 8(which is also his zodiac sign), and Apollo 15.

I'm like him because on his trip during Apollo 15, he tested Galileo's theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass (in the absence of aerodynamic drag). I like to test

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