AS09-19-2995 - Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 Mission image - Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, during EVA

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AS09-19-2995 - Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 Mission image - Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, during EVA

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The original database describes this as: Description: Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart,lunar module pilot,is photographed from the Command Module (CM) "Gumdrop" during his Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 Earth-orbital mission. He holds,in his right hand,a thermal sample which he is retrieving from the Lunar Module (LM) exterior. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and LM "Spider" are docked. Schweickart,wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU),is standing in "golden slippers" on the LM porch. Visible on his back are the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) and Oxygen Purge System (OPS).Film magazine was A,film type was SO-368 Ektachrome with 0.460 - 0.710 micrometers film / filter transmittance response and haze filter,80mm lens. Subject Terms: Apollo 9 Flight, Modules, Lunar Module, Astronauts, Extravehicular Activity Categories: EVA Date: 3/6/1969 0:00 Original: Film - 70MM CT Interior_Exterior: Exterior Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

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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...