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Rusty Schweickart

1935 - Today

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Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rusty Schweickart is the 142nd most popular astronaut (down from 81st in 2019), the 5,241st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,309th in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Rusty Schweickart ranks 142 out of 556. Before him are Christina Koch, Franklin Chang Díaz, Boris Volynov, Vance D. Brand, Sidney M. Gutierrez, and Tatyana Kuznetsova. After him are Georgy Grechko, Rakesh Sharma, Joseph A. Walker, Joe Engle, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Mae Jemison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Rusty Schweickart ranks 237. Before him are Susan Brownmiller, Željko Matuš, Fernando del Paso, Giovanna Ralli, Diahann Carroll, and Ramón Chao. After him are Paul Goma, Bobby Vinton, Valerio Adami, Norma Bengell, Barbara Harris, and Walter De Maria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 5,241 out of 20,380. Before him are James Samuel Coleman (1926), Gary Snyder (1930), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Todd Armstrong (1937), Tony Randall (1920), and Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911). After him are Sylvia Miles (1924), Vincent Curatola (1953), Andy Griffith (1926), Michael Brecker (1949), Anna Thomson (1953), and Barry Sonnenfeld (1953).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 68. Before him are James McDivitt (1929), Alfred Worden (1932), Peggy Whitson (1960), Christina Koch (1979), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Sidney M. Gutierrez (1951). After him are Joseph A. Walker (1921), Joe Engle (1932), Mae Jemison (1956), Charles E. Brady Jr. (1951), Karen Nyberg (1969), and Mike Massimino (1962).

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