Rusty Schweickart

Also known as Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart

American astronaut

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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…

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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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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.