Rusty Schweickart

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. He is also a former business executive and government executive.

He is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module.

Schweickart was born in Neptune, New Jersey. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rusty Schweickart Media

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  Apollo 9 Patch* * The insignia of the Apollo 9 space mission. The crew consist of astronauts James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. The Apollo 9 mission will evaluate spacecraft lunar module systems performance during manned Earth-orbital flight.

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  Schweickart standing in front of his North American F-86 Sabre in 1963

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  Schweickart performs an EVA standing on the lunar module porch, photographed by fellow astronaut James McDivitt inside the LM.

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  Schweickart and Alexei Leonov at the 2016 Starmus Festival

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  Rusty Schweickart in 2022 by Christopher Michel 1

Other websites

• Official website of Rusty Schweickart
• Astronautix biography of Rusty Schweickart
• Schweickart at Encyclopedia of Science
• Rusty Schweickart on IMDb
• No Frames, No Boundaries Connecting with the whole planet—from space by Russell Schweickart
• Question & Answer session with Rusty Schweickart after a talk he gave at CERN, June 1969, audio, 46:39