Editing David Scott (section)

===NASA management===
[[File:Center Director David Scott Dryden Dedication (ECN-5137).jpg|thumb|right|alt=Dryden's wife next to a bust of Dryden, Scott by her side|Scott (right) as Center Director at Dryden, 1976]]

In his role with Apollo-Soyuz, Scott traveled to [[Moscow]], leading a team of technical experts. There he met the commander of the Soviet part of the mission, [[Alexei Leonov]], with whom he would later write a joint autobiography.{{sfn|Scott & Leonov|pp=title page, 335–336}} In 1973 Scott was offered the job of deputy director of NASA's [[Dryden Flight Research Center]], located at Edwards, a place Scott had long loved. This allowed Scott to fly aircraft that reached the edge of space, and let him renew his acquaintance with the retired Chuck Yeager who was there as a consulting test pilot, and to whom Scott granted flying privileges.{{sfn|Scott & Leonov|pp=347–349}}

On April 18, 1975, at age 42, Scott became the Center Director at Dryden.<ref name="nm" /> This was a civilian appointment, and to accept it, Scott retired from the Air Force in March 1975 with the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]].{{sfn|Scott & Leonov|p=350}} Kraft wrote in his memoirs that Scott's appointment "pissed off Deke to his eyebrows".{{sfn|Kraft|p=344}} Scott found the work interesting and exciting, but with budget cuts and the forthcoming end of [[Approach and Landing Tests]] for the [[Space Shuttle]], in 1977 he decided it was time to leave NASA{{sfn|Scott & Leonov|p=380}} and retired from the agency on September 30, 1977.<ref name="nm" />