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Captain Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was the first astronaut with an Air Guard background, selected for astronaut training in October 1963

Captain Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was the first astronaut with an Air Guard background, selected for astronaut training in October 1963 while serving as an F-86 pilot in the 101st Tactical Fighter Squadron, Massachusetts Air National Guard. In March 1969, Schwieckart was the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 9 mission, which tested the Apollo moon-landing systems in low Earth orbit.

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