[DOC] [TLE] Astronaut Bio: John L. Swigert - Johnson Space Center - NASA [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Astronaut Bio: John L. Swigert - Johnson Space Center - NASA [PAR] Mr. Swigert was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 7 mission. Mr. Swigert was next assigned to the Apollo 13 backup crew and subsequently called upon to replace prime crewman Thomas K. Mattingly as command module pilot. [DOC] [TLE] Jack Swigert - Wikipedia [PAR] Apollo 13. Swigert was one of three astronauts aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission launched April 11, 1970. Originally part of the backup crew for the mission, he was assigned to the mission three days before launch, replacing astronaut Ken Mattingly. [DOC] [TLE] Jack Swigert: Apollo 13 Astronaut Turned Politician - Space.com [PAR] Mar 20, 2013 ... Jack Swigert was a last-minute replacement on the Apollo 13 crew. he later won 
election to the U.S. House of Representatives but died before... [DOC] [TLE] Film Doesn't Do Justice to Swigert the Astronaut or Person - latimes [PAR] Jul 17, 1995 ... If you've seen "Apollo 13," you know it could have been titled "The Heroic ... 
Lovell--Tom Haise and Jack L. Swigert Jr., played by Bill Paxton and Kevin 
Bacon, ... He would run up my walkway in his NASA jumpsuit and give the... [DOC] [TLE] 13 Things That Saved Apollo 13, Part 3: Charlie Duke's Measles ... [PAR] The original prime crew for Apollo 13 was Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly and Fred 
Haise. Credit: ... Among the nearly thirty Apollo astronauts, Jack Swigert had the 
best ... But the role he played in getting the astronauts back home safely can't be
... [DOC] [TLE] JACK SWIGERT, ASTRONAUT ELECTED TO CONGRESS, DIES ... [PAR] Dec 29, 1982 ... Jack Swigert, a former astronaut from Colorado who was elected to the ... part of 
a three-man crew launched aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft in an ... At East 
Denver High School, he played varsity football, as he would later at... [DOC] [TLE] For Jack Swigert, On His 83rd Birthday  AmericaSpace [PAR] Aug 29, 2014 ... Swigert as a football player during his university years. ... Swigert in his infamous 
fur recliner following his perilous Apollo 13 flight, 1970. ... He was a test pilot, 
astronaut, politician, and bachelor who may have liked a good... [DOC] [TLE] John L. Swigert, Jr. | American astronaut | Britannica.com [PAR] U.S. astronaut, participant in the Apollo 13 mission (April 1117, 1970), in which 
... John L. Swigert, Jr., in full John Leonard Swigert, Jr., byname Jack Swigert (
born Aug. ... Before becoming an astronaut in 1966, he was a U.S. Air Force pilot 
in... [DOC] [TLE] People  Apollo 13 on Spacelog [PAR] A former USAF aviator and commercial test pilot, Jack Swigert was the only 
unmarried NASA astronaut when he joined in 1966. After leaving NASA, he 
served... [DOC] [TLE] What did Apollo astronaut Jack Swigert do wrong? - Straight Dope ... [PAR] Swigert was, of course, one of the heroes of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission (he 
was played by Kevin Bacon in the movie). He was later elected... [DOC] [TLE] John L. Swigert Jr. - International Space Hall of Fame :: New Mexico ... [PAR] John "Jack" Swigert, Jr. was born on August 30, 1931, in Denver, Colorado. ... 
Swigert was one of nineteen applicants selected by NASA in its fifth astronaut 
class, ... Module pilot for Apollo 13, just days before the mission he had to replace 
the... [DOC] [TLE] How many of NASA's rocket riders were/are gay? - Datalounge [PAR] Any gay astronaut would have had to be so deep in the closet that he might as ... I 
think they were all married and had kids, except for Jack Swigert from Apollo 13. 
Kevin Bacon played him in the Ron Howard movie, and in the commentary Jim ... 
Funny that Jack Swigert was the only astronaut not portrayed in Tom Hanks'... [DOC]

Question: He played astronaut Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13"
Answer: Kevin Bacon