193. [Apollo 9] DAVID SCOTT IN THE SPACECRAFT HATCH ABOVE EARTH TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS, SEEN FROM OUTER SPACE Russell Schweickart, 3-13 March 1969 Printed 1969. Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS9-20-3064]. With "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on the reverse (issued by NASA / North American Rockwell, Downey, California). (North American Rockwell was NASA's prime contractor for the Apollo Command Module spacecraft.) 20.3 x 25.4 cm. (8 x 10 in.) Historical context An iconic photograph of the first two-man EVA in NASA's space program. David Scott performed a stand-up EVA in the open hatch of the Command Module Gumdrop, docked with the Lunar Module Spider in Earth orbit, while Russell Schweickart spacewalked outside Spider. Schweickart captured this remarkable image using the Hasselblad Super Wide camera with its 38mm lens, standing on Spider's front porch with his feet secured in the gold-painted foot restraints known as the "Golden Slippers." In the open hatch of Gumdrop, Scott is himself photographing Schweickart with the Hasselblad 500EL camera. "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." —Russell Schweickart (Jacobs, p. 42) The first-ever two-man EVA had been conducted just two months earlier by Soviet cosmonauts Khrunov and Yeliseyev, who performed a spacecraft transfer between Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4 in January 1969. Literature LIFE, 28 March 1969, pp. 26-27 (variant) Time, 28 March 1969, p. 54 Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, p. 84 Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, p. 40 Moon: Man's Greatest Adventure, Thomas, ed., pp. 160-161 Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, Reynolds, p. 43