Astronaut John 'Jack' Swigert - Denver, CO, USA
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John Leonard "Jack" 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.
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Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 06/27/2021
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This statue found in Concourse B of Denver International Airport (ticket required to visit) is an exact replica found in the U.S. Capitol National Statutory Hall ( (
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"Jack Swigert: Apollo 13 command module pilot
Jack Swigert survived the perilous Apollo 13 mission, then took a different kind of risk: entering politics.
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. Swigert joined the Apollo 13 crew three days before launch time, after the original command module pilot, Ken Mattingly, was exposed to rubella.
Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission, but an explosion in the command module forced the astronauts to abandon their dreams of visiting the moon and instead focus on making it back to Earth alive.
A few years later, Swigert resigned from NASA to enter politics. He won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Colorado in 1982, but died of bone cancer just before he could take office." (from (
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