AS09-19-2993 - Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 Mission image - Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, during EVA
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Schweickart, Rusty, 1935-
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Rusty Schweickart (b. October 25, 1935, Neptune Township, NJ) 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. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the Portable Life Support Sy...