ASTRONAUT

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rusty Schweickart has received more than 482,142 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Rusty Schweickart is the 81st most popular astronaut (up from 129th in 2019), the 3,309th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,166th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 480k

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  • 60.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Rusty Schweickart ranks 81 out of 556. Before him are Sally Ride, Konstantin Feoktistov, Georgi Ivanov, Leonid Popov, Rakesh Sharma, and Judith Resnik. After him are Viktor Afanasyev, Boris Volynov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, James McDivitt, Yevgeny Khrunov, and William Anders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Rusty Schweickart ranks 162. Before him are Donald Arnold, Sergio Rossi, M. Emmet Walsh, David Lodge, Charles Grodin, and Giovanni Lajolo. After him are Gerd Albrecht, Rashad Khalifa, Ken Kercheval, Dudley Moore, Denise Perrier, and Peter Schreier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 3,309 out of 20,380. Before him are Moondog (1916), Raymond Franz (1922), Barbara Babcock (1937), Fred Brooks (1931), John Gavin (1931), and Tracey Adams (1958). After him are Paul Giamatti (1967), P. J. Kennedy (1858), Leslie Lamport (1941), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Frankie Valli (1934), and Halsey (1994).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 37. Before him are Gordon Cooper (1927), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), Michael J. Smith (1945), Mary L. Cleave (1947), Sally Ride (1951), and Judith Resnik (1949). After him are James McDivitt (1929), Donn F. Eisele (1930), Dick Scobee (1939), Alfred Worden (1932), Stuart Roosa (1933), and Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951).

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