Word: swigert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awnings that will be needed. The Skylab astronauts have flown to Huntsville, where they have run repeated trials of the repair procedures in the simulated zero-G conditions of NASA'S water test tank. Indeed, the intense feeling among NASA'S rank and file reminded Astronaut John Swigert Jr. of the remarkable effort that enabled him and his Apollo 13 crew mates to bring their crippled spacecraft safely back to earth after an explosion. Said Swigert: "I think this incident will show that when the chips are down, we can turn a potential failure into a success...
...distant earth turned the thoughts of many astronauts to environmental problems. "I wondered how everyone is going to live on that small, crowded globe," recalls John Young of Apollo 10 and 16. Even during the tense hours after the explosion of an oxygen tank, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert found himself concerned with the terrestrial environment-and suddenly certain about how to preserve it: "I became convinced that space technology-earth-resources satellites, solar-energy generators, global communications networks and the like-is the answer to the environmental disasters that threaten this fragile earth...
...Apollo 13. Neither side has made its final selection of crewmen, but the U.S. front runners include: Tom Stafford, a veteran of Gemini 6 and 9 and Apollo 10; Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the hard-driving 48-year-old chief of flightcrew operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center; and Jack Swigert, a veteran of Apollo...
After a thorough probe of the accident that crippled Apollo 13 and endangered the lives of Astronauts James Lovell, Fred Raise and Jack Swigert, NASA Deputy Administrator George Low announced last week that the space agency had determined the probable cause: a short circuit that led to the explosion of an oxygen tank in the service module...
...Swigert is no stranger to in-flight emergencies. Once, while flying with the Air Force in Korea, he landed his plane in a driving squall, crashed into a road grader someone had left on the runway and walked away unscratched from the blaze that demolished his aircraft. Another time, as he was landing at Buckley Air Field near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency...