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John Leonard Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982) was an American NASA astronaut, test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and politician. In April 1970, as command module pilot of Apollo 13, he became one of 24 astronauts who flew to the Moon.
Apr 22, 2024 · Jack Swigert, U.S. astronaut, command module pilot on the Apollo 13 mission (April 11–17, 1970), in which an intended Moon landing was canceled because of a ruptured fuel-cell oxygen tank in the service module. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982 but died before taking office.
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Jul 24, 2023 · Learn about the life and career of John L. \"Jack\" Swigert, who replaced Thomas K. Mattingly as command module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. See photos, videos, and stories of his spaceflight and other NASA activities.
Apr 9, 2020 · John "Jack" Swigert was a test pilot, aerospace engineer, politician and NASA astronaut who was most famous for his role as the command module pilot of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in...
Dec 29, 1982 · Jack Swigert, a former astronaut from Colorado who was elected to the House of Representatives in November while suffering from cancer, died Monday night at Georgetown University Hospital in...
Apr 8, 2020 · When the astronauts were about 200,000 miles from Earth, Mission Control asked Swigert to “stir” the cryogenic tanks—a routine task that generated a totally unexpected event: An exposed wire in...
Apr 17, 2020 · The crew of Apollo 13, Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module Pilot (CMP) John L. “Jack” Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Fred W. Haise, still 175,000 miles from Earth, looked back at the Moon and realized that according to the normal flight plan, Lovell and Haise would have just landed their Lunar Module (LM) Aquarius in the Fra Mauro hi...
