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Jack Swigert was a NASA astronaut who flew to the Moon on Apollo 13 in 1970, and a Republican congressman who died of cancer in 1982. Learn about his early life, flight experience, NASA career, Apollo 13 mission, and post-NASA activities.

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Jack Swigert was a command module pilot on the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, which was canceled due to a fuel-cell explosion. He was a former Air Force and commercial pilot, a NASA executive, and a congressman who died of cancer in 1982.

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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 1970

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/29/obituaries/jack-swigert-astronaut-elected-to-congress-dies.html
John Leonard Swigert Jr. was born Aug. 30, 1931, in Denver, the son of an ophthalmologist who pressed his son to follow him into medicine. ''Jack just didn't want to be a doctor,'' his mother

https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-houston-weve-had-a-problem/
Learn how the crew of Apollo 13 faced a catastrophic explosion and power failure 50 years ago, and how Jack Swigert, the Command Module Pilot, handled the emergency. Read the transcripts, watch the videos and see the photos of the mission that changed human spaceflight.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160414-the-decision-that-saved-apollo-13
This Sunday, 17 April, marks the safe return of James Lovell, "Jack" Swigert and Fred Haise after almost 88 tense hours on board their critically wounded craft thanks to that stroke of luck.

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John L. "Jack" Swigert was a command module pilot for the Apollo 13 mission, which was aborted after an oxygen tank explosion. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and logged 142 hours, 54 minutes in space.

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Jack Swigert was an American astronaut who flew to the Moon on Apollo 13, but had to abort the mission due to technical issues. He later became a congressman from Colorado, but died of cancer before taking office.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-apollo-13-crew-returns-safely-to-earth/
John L. "Jack" Swigert was the CMP of Apollo 13, the mission that aborted the Moon landing after an explosion. Read how he and his crewmates, James A. Lovell and Fred W. Haise, survived and returned to Earth with the help of Mission Control.

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Swigert graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1953 and was awarded a master's degree by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1965.Before becoming an astronaut in 1966, he was a U.S. Air Force pilot in Japan and Korea and a commercial test pilot.. Jack Swigert, 1966. Credit: NASA; Apollo 13 launching from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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John Leonard Swigert Jr. 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. Ironically, due to the "slingshot" route around the Moon they chose to safely return to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts flew farther

https://www.biography.com/scientists/real-life-astronauts-apollo-13-movie
Command Module Pilot John "Jack" Swigert Jr. (Kevin Bacon) Swigert was a last-minute addition to the Apollo 13 crew, replacing Ken Mattingly, who had been exposed to German measles just 48 hours

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As described his obituary in the New York Times, Jack Swigert had a reputation for enjoying parties and having many girlfriends:. Mr. Swigert was tall, husky and sported a crew cut most of his life. He was a lifelong bachelor, and some of the other astronauts, all of whom were married, joked that he was somewhat of a swinger.

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The spacecraft ferrying astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise to their planned lunar landing had traveled just over 200,000 miles from Earth, and was approaching the moon's orbit.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-17-ca-24763-story.html
As a last embarrassment to the memory of Jack Swigert, who died in 1984 after being elected to Congress in Colorado, Haise utters a nasty and silly crack about somehow having contracted "the

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John Leonard "Jack" Swigert Jr. (August 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982) was an American test pilot, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer, United States Air Force pilot, and NASA astronaut, one of the 24 persons who have flown to the Moon. Swigert was born in Denver, Colorado.

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In the Pacific Ocean, Astronauts from Apollo 13, Fred Haise (L), John Swigert and James Lovell (R) all in white suits, await a helicopter pickup. With them in the raft is a Navy frog man wearing

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Jack Swigert. Self: The Mike Douglas Show. 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 twenty-four astronauts who flew to the Moon. Before joining NASA in 1966, Swigert was a

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Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise knew that their chances of returning safely to Earth were poor. For days, they lived in refrigerator-like temperatures with only six ounces of water

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In completing his first space flight, Mr. Swigert logged a total of 142 hours, 54 minutes. Mr. Swigert took a leave of absence from NASA in April 1973 to become Executive Director of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Swigert resigned from NASA and the committee in August 1977, to enter politics.

https://denverite.com/2017/04/17/jack-swigert-astronaut-commemorated-dia-amazing-thing-45-years-ago/
Learn about the life and legacy of John L. "Jack" Swigert Jr., who was born in Denver, flew to the moon and back, and died of cancer in 1982. See his bronze statue at Denver International Airport and his role in the Apollo 13 mission.

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While Swigert was not in a different country, he was still considered a U.S. citizen abroad, which qualified him for an extension to file his taxes late but penalty-free. Apollo 13 50th

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Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (/ h eɪ z / HAYZ; born November 14, 1933) is an American former NASA astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force, and a test pilot.He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon, having flown as Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13.He was slated to become the 6th person to walk on the Moon, but the Apollo 13 landing mission was aborted