Editing David Scott (section)

==Post-NASA career==
[[File:DaveScottByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|left|alt=refer to caption|Scott in February 2009]]

Entering the private sector, Scott founded Scott Science and Technology, Inc.<ref name="nm">{{cite web|url=http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=68|title=David R. Scott|publisher=New Mexico Museum of Space History|access-date=February 24, 2019|archive-date=January 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107005406/http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=68|url-status=live}}</ref> In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Scott worked on several government projects, including designing the astronaut training for a proposed Air Force version of the Space Shuttle.{{sfn|Scott & Leonov|pp=381–383}} One of Scott's firms went out of business after the 1986 [[Space Shuttle Challenger disaster|''Challenger'' disaster]]; though the company played no part in the disaster, subsequent redesign of parts of the shuttle eliminated Scott's firm's role.<ref name="burns" /> After ''Challenger'', Scott served four years on the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, formed to advise the [[United States Secretary of Transportation|Secretary of Transportation]] on the possible conversion of [[ICBM]]s to launch vehicles.<ref name="astroscholarship" /> In 1992 Scott was found by a [[Prescott, Arizona]], court to have defrauded nine investors in a partnership organized by him.<ref name="burns" /> He was ordered to pay roughly $400,000 to investors in the partnership, which was to create technology to prevent aircraft mechanical breakdowns, but which was never developed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Astronaut David Scott ordered to pay $400,000 in fraud case|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=December 30, 1992|page=C8|url=https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:3WG1-B850-00H1-R43C-00000-00&context=1516831|access-date=April 26, 2019}}{{subscription required}}</ref>

Scott was a commentator for British television on the first [[Space Shuttle]] flight ([[STS-1]]) in April 1981.<ref name="astroscholarship">{{cite web|url=http://astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/david-r-scott/|title=Dave Scott – Astronaut Scholarship Foundation|publisher=Astronaut Scholarship Foundation|access-date=February 23, 2019|archive-date=November 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119014309/http://astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/david-r-scott/|url-status=live}}</ref> He also was a consultant on the film ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo{{nbs}}13]]'' and for the 1998 [[HBO]] [[miniseries]] ''[[From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)|From the Earth to the Moon]]'',<ref name="astroscholarship" /> in which he was portrayed by [[Brett Cullen]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/movies/television-review-boyish-eyes-on-the-moon.html|title=Television review; Boyish eyes on the Moon|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1998|access-date=August 5, 2018|last1=James|first1=Caryn|archive-date=August 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180806061924/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/movies/television-review-boyish-eyes-on-the-moon.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Scott consulted on the 3D IMAX film, [[Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D|''Magnificent Desolation'']] (2005), showing Apollo astronauts on the Moon, and produced by [[Tom Hanks]] and the IMAX Corporation.<ref name="astroscholarship" /> He is one of the astronauts featured in the 2007 [[In the Shadow of the Moon (book)|book]] and documentary ''[[In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film)|In the Shadow of the Moon]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/movies/07moon.html|title=When the Moon was a matter of pride|last1=Holden|first1=Stephen|date=September 7, 2007|access-date=June 12, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=November 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107120422/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/07/movies/07moon.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Apollo XV Vettes at NCM.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Chevrolet Corvette]]s owned by Scott (right) and Worden during the training for Apollo{{nbs}}15, photographed in 2019]]

From 2003 to 2004, Scott was a consultant on the [[BBC]] TV series ''[[Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_odyssey.pdf|title=Space School – Turning actors into astronauts|publisher=BBC|access-date=June 12, 2017|archive-date=February 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224231055/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_odyssey.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, he and Leonov began work on a dual biography/history of the "Space Race" between the United States and the [[Soviet Union]]. The book, ''Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race'', was published in 2006. Armstrong and Hanks both wrote introductions to the book. Scott has worked on the Brown University science teams for the [[Chandrayaan-1]] lunar orbiter. For NASA, he has worked on the 500-Day Lunar Exploration Study and as a collaborator on the research investigation entitled "Advanced Visualization in Solar System Exploration and Research (ADVISER): Optimizing the Science Return from the Moon and Mars".<ref name="astroscholarship" />

Scott had taken two [[Bulova]] timepieces, a wristwatch and a stopwatch, with him to the Moon without advance authorization from Slayton.{{sfn|August 3, 1972, hearing|p=124}} Scott wore the wristwatch on the third EVA, after his NASA-issued [[Omega Speedmaster]] lost its crystal. He sold the Bulova watch in 2015 for $1.625{{nbs}}million, after which the company marketed similar timepieces, whose accompanying material mentioned Scott and Apollo{{nbs}}15. Scott sued in federal court in 2017, alleging Bulova and [[Kay Jewelers]] were wrongfully using his name and image for commercial purposes, and in April 2018, a [[United States magistrate judge|federal magistrate]] ruled he could proceed on some of his claims.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dinzeo|first=Maria|title=Astronaut's case over Bulova ads cleared for liftoff|publisher=[[Courthouse News Service]]|date=April 4, 2018|url=https://www.courthousenews.com/astronauts-case-over-bulova-ads-cleared-for-liftoff/|access-date=February 24, 2019|archive-date=February 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190225044851/https://www.courthousenews.com/astronauts-case-over-bulova-ads-cleared-for-liftoff/|url-status=live}}</ref> The case was dismissed by agreement of the parties in August 2018,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180822978|title=''Scott v. Citizen Watch Company of America''|publisher=leagle.com|access-date=April 18, 2022|date=August 20, 2018|archive-date=October 31, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031163958/https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180822978|url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2021, Bulova marked the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo{{nbs}}15 with the issuance of a commemorative watch.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Bulova's Limited-Edition Lunar Pilot Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the 'Other' Moon Watch|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|last=Sullivan|first=Nick|date=August 3, 2021}}</ref>