David Holcomb Scott | |
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Born | 1916 |
Died | 2000[1] |
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David Holcomb Scott was an American geologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey's Center of Astrogeology in Flagstaff, Arizona. Scott was involved in the Apollo Program, and served as project chief for the Mars geologic mapping program, which was funded by NASA's Planetology Program Office.[2] He served as Discipline Scientist for the NASA Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, and founded the Lunar Geosciences Working Group, which resulted in publication of Status and Future of Lunar Geoscience.[3] He continued to publish scientific articles on Mars through the 1990s.[4] He authored more formal lunar and planetary geologic maps than anyone else in the Branch of Astrogeology.[1]
According to Don Wilhelms in his 1993 book To a Rocky Moon:[5]