posted 01-09-2009 08:06 PM               

At the dinner the next night, I had the privilege of sitting next to him and his wife and they are first class people all the way. He answered all the questions that the table guests had and he also was interested in what we did for a living as well. Being a former military man, myself, Dave and I had a lot of good military talk.

posted 01-13-2009 03:03 AM               

I kind of assumed this would mean he would be fairly stand-offish but in the end he came over as being quite pleasent on both occasions I have met him, happily posed for pictures and added inscriptions on pictures, though on the first occasion when he was busy he got a little bit frustrated with one guy who had a lot of items and wanted lengthy inscriptions on all of them. I think he still did them though.

posted 01-13-2009 11:02 AM               

At the end of our conversation, Gordon was heading to his table, I asked for a picture of Scott with my son. He called Gordon back and said you can't take a good picture with out your backup. After this, he then asked if I wanted to jump into the photo and asked someone in attendance (neither of us knew) to take a picture of me, Gordon and Scott.

posted 02-18-2010 05:42 PM               

However, when I met him at Autographica in September he politely refused my request for him to inscribe that (and instead wrote just the personalization and 'Apollo 15 CDR').

I was quite surprised since I was paying £95 for the signature,but hey what can you do. (And it doesn't bode well that he'd turn down a 16 year old like myself!)

posted 06-14-2011 02:41 PM               

I had also gotten a signature from Scott at the ASF November 2010 convention and I went back and checked that and it too was signed "Scot". I looked back at other signatures of his that I've bought over the years and they are all signed "Scott".

Does anyone know when Scott started signing items "Scot", or is it a hit or miss sort of thing? Thank you!

posted 06-05-2012 01:07 PM               

My favorite Dave Scott quote from the lunar surface was spoken a few minutes before he dropped the hammer and the feather. While aligning the antenna at 167:46:05MET Scott said: "Oh, Earth! Where are you?" I'm seriously thinking of asking him to put that on a photo the next time I see him.

I met him for the first time a year ago at Spacefest 3. I wanted him to sign a Gemini 8 "first docking in space" photo and he gladly obliged. He even added a few extra words. The only thing I didn't like is that he signed it tilting off the right side of the page. Believe it or not, I'm particular about things like that. This year, I took him the same exact picture and asked him to put the same thing on it only I showed him where to sign. When I handed him the photo, he said "I'm not a novelist." I wasn't asking him to write a novel, I was asking for 10 words. I wanted the wording to reflect the historical value of the photo. Instead of arguing with him, I merely told him how good he'd been to me in the past. While I was talking, he signed the photo just as I requested.

When he finished with that photo, I presented him with a Station 2 panorama from Apollo 15 that I had to piece together myself. I learned my lesson from the first photo and asked for very little on the panorama. He generously complied with my wishes on the second one without saying a word.

In spite of the experience, I'm not ready to drop him off my list yet. He actually taught me a valuable lesson. After I got Scott's autograph, I approached Cernan and asked him if he would sign an Apollo 10 photo with his quote following descent stage separation, and he said he would. After I brought him the photo, he asked if I was sure I wanted him to write that, and I told him I was very sure. He also complied.

Basically, I think the best thing to do if you want something besides just name and mission information, is to ask first. That way, if he hesitates or looks uncomfortable, you can always ask him what he likes, and between the two of you, you can come up with something that'll make both of you happy. I did that with Richard Gordon. It took us an hour to come up with the perfect line, but we finally did it.

You also have to remember that these guys are getting old. Its not easy for some of them to sit there all day write a lot. Everyone except Alan Bean likes to keep the inscriptions as short as possible. People like Aldrin discouraged me from asking for inscriptions with his huge signing fees.