Rusty Schweickart

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

He is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module.

Schweickart was born in Neptune, New Jersey. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Rusty Schweickart
 Astronautix biography of Rusty Schweickart
 Schweickart at Encyclopedia of Science

 No Frames, No Boundaries Connecting with the whole planet—from space by Russell Schweickart
 Question & Answer session with Rusty Schweickart after a talk he gave at CERN, June 1969, audio, 46:39

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