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Russell Louis Rusty Schweickart aka Schweikart (born October 25 1935) is an American former astronaut research scientist US Air Force fighter pilot business and government executive. Schweickart chosen in NASA’s third astronaut group is best known as the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 9 mission the first manned flight test of the LM 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.
