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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rusty Schweickart has received more than 430,956 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Rusty Schweickart is the 129th most popular astronaut (down from 109th in 2019), the 5,178th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,649th in 2019) and the 45th most popular American Astronaut.

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  • 31

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  • 3.88

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Rusty Schweickart ranks 129 out of 524Before him are Lev Dyomin, Valentin Lebedev, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Wubbo Ockels, and Dumitru Prunariu. After him are Vyacheslav Zudov, Valery Ryumin, Gennadi Strekalov, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Anna Lee Fisher, and Mae Jemison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Rusty Schweickart ranks 249Before him are Vladica Popović, Alfrēds Rubiks, Richard M. Karp, Dinkha IV, Ronald Graham, and Fernando del Paso. After him are Luboš Kohoutek, Noriko Ohara, José María Gil-Robles, Imre Makovecz, Lee Hoi-chang, and Andréa Parisy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 5,178 out of 18,182Before him are William Henry Conley (1840), Edward Stettinius Jr. (1900), Phil Anselmo (1968), Ed Begley (1901), Donny Hathaway (1945), and Robert W. Floyd (1936). After him are Linda Cardellini (1975), William D. Coolidge (1873), Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911), Willard Scott (1934), Ron Woodroof (1950), and Rita Coolidge (1945).

Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Rusty Schweickart ranks 45Before him are Stuart Roosa (1933), Alfred Worden (1932), Walter Cunningham (1932), Sunita Williams (1965), Donn F. Eisele (1930), and William R. Pogue (1930). After him are Kathryn D. Sullivan (1951), Anna Lee Fisher (1949), Mae Jemison (1956), Barbara Morgan (1951), Rick Husband (1957), and William Shepherd (1949).