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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 .
Jack Swigert est l'un des trois astronautes de la mission lunaire Apollo 13, lancée le 11 avril 1970. La mission était la troisième tentative d'alunissage, mais est annulée après l’explosion d'un réservoir d'oxygène dans le module de service du vaisseau spatial.
6 juin 2024 · Jack Swigert was a U.S. astronaut and 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.
13 avr. 2020 · 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.
24 juil. 2023 · John L. “Jack” Swigert. Mr. Swigert was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 7 mission. Mr. Swigert was next assigned to the Apollo 13 backup crew and subsequently called upon to replace prime crewman Thomas K. Mattingly as command module pilot.
14 avr. 2016 · Initially the crew thought a meteoroid had hit them, but it soon became apparent they were losing oxygen. “It looks to me… that we are venting something,” replied Jack Swigert.
3 mai 2023 · “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” astronaut Jack Swigert told mission control in Houston at what was then NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center). “We’ve had a main B bus undervolt,” Mission Commander James Lovell said.
