Jack Swigert

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 away from Earth than any other astronauts before or since, though they had to abort the Moon landing.

30 August 1931

Born on the same birth day (30 August): Agoston Haraszthy • Anthony Ireland (cricketer) • Carl Runge • Colin Dann • David Paymer • Don Boudria • Fred Hampton • Freek de Jonge • Gediminas Kirkilas • Germán Legarreta • Guy de Lussigny • J. Alden Weir • Joan Blondell • Joseph Dennie • Lelia Masaga • Leon Lopez • Lewis Black • Seriki Audu • Sinead Kerr • Theodor Svedberg • Vladimir Jugović • Wojciech Fibak

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