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Also known as Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart

American astronaut

Person · Open Library

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Top works

  • Damian Loeb

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Film & TV

Acting · Neptune, New Jersey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart aka Schweikart (born October 25, 1935) is an American astronaut. Schweickart was born in Neptune, New Jersey. He earned an B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics/Astronautics from MIT in 1956 and 1963 respectively. He is also a former member of the 101st Tactical Fighter Squadron. Description above from the Wikipedia article Russell…

Known for

  • Apollo 1: Destination Moon — Self2025
  • La Californie ! — Self - Engineer & astronaut2023
  • On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime2019
  • Visioneer: The Peter Diamandis Story — Self2015
  • Gaia Symphony — Self1992
  • The other side of the Moon — Self1990
  • For All Mankind — Self - Narrator - Apollo 9 (voice)1989

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
34
Total plays
45

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Quotes

  • On that small blue and white planet below is everything that means anything to you: all of history and music, poetry and art, death and birth, love, tears, joy and games... All on that little spot in the cosmos. National boundaries and human artifacts no longer seem real. Only the biosphere, whole and home of life.

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Key facts

Born
Russell Louis Schweickart , ( 1935-10-25 ) October 25, 1935, Neptune, New Jersey , U.S.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BS , MS )
Spouses
Clare Whitfield ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 , divorced ) ​ Nancy Ramsey
Awards
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Rank
Captain , USAF
Time in space
10d 1h 0m
Selection
NASA Group 3 (1963)
Total eva time
1h 17m
Missions
Apollo 9
Website
rustyschweickart .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, business executive, and government executive.

Schweickart was selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first crewed flight test of the lunar module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the portable life support system used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. As backup commander of the first crewed Skylab mission in 1973, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office of Applications.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rusty Schweickart” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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