210: First US two-man spacewalk: David Scott in the open hatch of the CSM Gumdrop, Russell Schweickart [Apollo 9], 3-13 March 1969 < One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, 28 October 2022 < Auctions

A very famous photograph of the first Apollo EVA, featuring a simultaneous EVA by Russell Schweickart outside the LM Spider and a stand-up EVA by David Scott in the open hatch of the CSM Gumdrop.

The first two-man EVA was performed two months before by cosmonauts Khrunov and Yeliseyev, who conducted a spacecraft transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 in January 1969. Schweickart took this photograph from the porch of the LM. Scott is seen himself taking photographs with his Hasselblad from the open hatch of the CM Gumdrop docked with the LM Spider.

“I took this shot of Dave Scott taking a picture of me at the beginning of my EVA on Apollo 9. It captures just a bit of the fantastic beauty of the Earth juxtaposed against the infinite black of space. In the foreground is that amazing combination of human and machine that is enabling us to emerge into the universe out of the womb of Earth.”

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First US two-man spacewalk: David Scott in the open hatch of the CSM Gumdrop, Russell Schweickart [Apollo 9], 3-13 March 1969

First US two-man spacewalk: David Scott in the open hatch of the CSM Gumdrop, Russell Schweickart [Apollo 9], 3-13 March 1969

A very famous photograph of the first Apollo EVA, featuring a simultaneous EVA by Russell Schweickart outside the LM Spider and a stand-up EVA by David Scott in the open hatch of the CSM Gumdrop.

—Russell Schweickart (Jacobs, pg. 42)

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