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A statue of Colorado astronaut Jack Swigert, who died in 1982 just after he was elected to Congress, has been moved to a more prominent location in the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Republican Sen. Wayne Allard said Friday the statue now stands in Emancipation Hall in the new Capitol Visitors Center. It had been in a dark corner in a Capitol hallway.
Swigert was the command module pilot for the Apollo 13 moon mission, which had to be aborted when an oxygen tank ruptured.
He was born in Denver and received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado. He died of complications from cancer before he could take his seat in the U.S. House. The Associated Press
