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	Rusty Schweickart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Schweickart became an astronaut in October of 1963.
		Schweickart's condition was made worse as the mission Commander James McDivitt did not report it to Mission Control (the flight surgeon could have advised Schweikart on ways of limiting the effects).
		Schweickart is also cofounder of the B612 Foundation, a group that aims to defend Earth from asteroid impacts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Schweickart (372 words)

	Schweickart Biography
		Schweickart is the founder and past president of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), the international professional society of astronauts and cosmonauts.
		Schweickart is an Honorary Trustee and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
		Schweickart was born on 25 October 1935 in Neptune, NJ.
	www.well.com /~rs/rls-bio.html (988 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Schweickart served as backup commander for the first Skylab mission and, in addition, was responsible for monitoring design/development efforts for the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM), and planning extravehicular activities to be used in Project Skylab.
		Schweickart was responsible for the development of hardware and procedures associated with erecting the solar shade and deploying the jammed solar array wing.
		Schweickart left the Astronaut Office at Johnson Space Center for an assignment at Headquarters NASA in Washington, D.C. as Director of User Affairs in the Office of Applications.
	freespace.virgin.net /p.thompson/astronautbios/russelllschweickart.html (479 words)

	SPACE.com -- Astronaut Asks Congress to Investigate Threatening Asteroid
		Schweickart and other scientists stress, however, that future observations are likely to reduce all these odds to zero.
		Schweickart heads up the B612 Foundation, which since 2003 has advocated for more research and action to protect Earth from stray asteroids.
		Should his analysis prove correct after formal study, Schweickart says serious consideration should be given to first placing a radio transponder on the asteroid in order to better track its whereabouts.
	www.space.com /news/050519_asteroid_mission.html (1319 words)

	lamonitor.com: The Online News Source for Los Alamos
		Schweickart's experience as a NASA astronaut, scientist and high-tech entrepreneur was laced throughout his talk.
		Schweickart said that George Bush seems to believe deep in himself that all issues are fundamentally simple, that ultimately he knows what's right and that he doesn't want to mess up his mind with facts to the contrary.
		Schweickart is a Fellow of the America Astronautical Society; Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the Explorers Club, and Sigma Xi.
	www.lamonitor.com /articles/2004/10/28/headline_news/news05.txt (1047 words)

	Astronaut Bio: Russell Schweickart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Schweickart was named Chairman of the California Energy Commission by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., on August 24, 1979.
		Schweickart was appointed to the Commission in July 1979.
		Following the loss of the thermal shield during the launch of the Skylab vehicle, he assumed responsibility for the development of hardware and procedures associated with erecting the emergency solar shade and deploying the jammed solar array wing.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/schweick.htm (600 words)

	Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: Russel L. (Rusty) Schweickart
		Russell L. Schweickart orbited the Earth on Apollo 9, during which the Lunar Module designed to land on the moon was tested for the first time in space.
		Schweickart was born October 25, 1935, in Neptune, N.J. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Master of Science in aeronautics and astronautics.
		Schweickart went to NASA in October 1963 as one of 14 selected in the third group of astronauts.
	www.astronautscholarship.org /schweickart.html (320 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Global Focus
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Alan: The discovery of Hale-Bopp was certainly one of the highlights thus far.
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Rusty: The best place to watch the eclipse ideally would be the best weather location which is where we are in Iran and the proximity to the center line for totality which we're pretty close to.
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Rusty: I think the biggest cultural difference is being an Islamic state--an a fairly strong one--in that all of the women have to be covered all the time.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/99/inatl081099.htm (2712 words)

	Chariots For Apollo, ch12-4
		When James McDivitt, David Scott, and Russell Schweickart had received their Apollo flight assignment in late 1968, they were faced with an even more complicated mission than the one they contemplated in early 1969.
		McDivitt and Schweickart (left to right) practice in the lunar module simulator for the Apollo 9 mission to evaluate the LM in earth-orbit operations and the Apollo suit in the space environment.
		Schweickart's tasks also included collecting experiment samples on the spacecraft exterior and standing in foot restraints (called "golden slippers") on the lunar module porch to take photographs and operate a television camera.
	www.solarviews.com /history/SP-4205/ch12-4.html (955 words)

	USATODAY.com - Avoiding crash course in planetary defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Russell Schweickart, former NASA astronaut and now director of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group focused on solutions to deal with disorderly NEOs, senses the start of a transition from "old think" to "new think" concerning the hazard.
		Schweickart said that new thinking reflects the actual nature of the detection process, which generates a growing catalog of NEOs and their known orbits.
		Schweickart said that — assuming there is an effort to continue and improve our detection program — if and when we do find an object that actually threatens the Earth we will know that decades ahead of the projected impact date.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-03-11-asteroid-menace_x.htm (2040 words)

	Rusty Schweickart
		Schweickart was one of the first astronauts to space-walk without a tether, and one the first to transmit live TV pictures from space (along with crew members James McDivitt and David Scott.
		Schweickart is also credited with development of the hardware and procedures which prolonged the life of the Skylab space station.
		After his retirement from NASA, Schweickart served for two years as the assistant for science and technology to Governor Jerry Brown of California (1977-79), and served in the Governor's office for two years as his assistant for science and technology.
	www.nndb.com /people/878/000023809 (225 words)

	Schweickart
		Schweickart was selected by NASA in October 1963.
		Schweickart also went on a 46 minute space walk to test the new spacesuit model that astronauts would later use on the moon.
		Schweickart later moved to NASA Headquarters in Washington as Director of User Affairs in the Office of Applications, responsible for transferring NASA technology to the outside world.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/mwade/astros/schckart.htm (1192 words)

	Pravda.RU:Asteroid to ram Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rusty Schweickart and Edward Lu said a mission of this type could be launched to an asteroid in 2015.
		Testifying before an investigation into the threat from asteroids to the Earth, Apollo astronaut Russell L Schweickart called for a new mission to develop the technologies needed to protect the Earth.
		Schweickart was one of the Apollo astronauts, and Lu recently returned to Earth after a 6-month tour of duty on the International Space Station.
	newsfromrussia.com /science/2004/04/08/53309_.html (422 words)

	Russell L. Schweickart
		Russell Schweickart served as a pilot in the United States Air Force and in the Air National Guard from 1956 to 1963.
		Schweickart was a research scientist at the Experimental Astronomy Laboratory at MIT.
		Russell Schweickart served as lunar module pilot for the flight of Apollo 9.
	home.comcast.net /~bfmuldrake/schweickart.html (741 words)

	APOLLO MISSION CONTROL PHOTO PLUS
		Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, took this photograph of Scott during his EVA as he stood on the porch outside the Lunar Module.
		Russell L. Schweickart, Lunar Module pilot, stands in "golden slippers" on the Lunar Module "Spider's" porch during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.
		Russell L. Schweickart during his stand up EVA holding on to the hand rail.
	www.apollomissionphotos.com /index9.html (690 words)

	Near-Earth asteroids buzz the US government - space - 20 May 2005 - New Scientist
		And on Friday, former astronaut Russell Schweickart outlined a plan to land a transponder on an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2036.
		Schweickart, on the board of a foundation that aims to protect Earth from NEOs, hopes to send a robotic mission costing about $300 million to 2004 MN4 that would use a transponder to radio the asteroid's position and surface properties to Earth.
		Schweickart is also calling on Congress to formalise a plan to deal with potential impactors.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7412&feedId=space_rss20 (645 words)

	WN: Wired News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Schweickart himself believes that an impact is unlikely.
		In his proposal, Schweickart calls on Congress to appoint a government agency to make decisions on when and how to deflect an asteroid or comet, should one be on a collision course with Earth.
		Though Bottke hadn't yet reviewed Schweickart's proposal Tuesday, he said the idea shouldn't be dismissed without further discussion in the scientific community.
	www.wired.com /news/avantgo/story/0,2278,67630-1,00.html (569 words)

	Congressman Backs Asteroid Agency - 10e20 Website Design Latest News
		Schweickart first proposed the idea last month, during a presentation at the International Space Development Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
		Schweickart has called on Congress to authorize a $300 million mission to place a transponder on a 1,050-foot-wide asteroid known as 2004 MN4.
		Schweickart argues that a transponder would help refine that estimate and give the appropriate agencies time to react, should we learn that the chance is actually more like 1 in 10.
	www.10e20webdesign.com /news/news_center_latest_technology_internet_news_01_june_05_Congressman_Backs_Asteroid_Agency.htm (598 words)

	SPACE.HTML
		Schweickart himself seemed amazed at what he was saying, amazed at the gathering he was attending, amazed - still - at the events which led him to drift bodily free between Earth and Universe.
		Schweickart: Yes, and you take off the transfer system, and if you'd used it, you transfer the urine into, well depending upon the policies on the particular mission, you either take a sample of it, for a scientific investigation, or you just dump it, one or the other.
		Schweickart: Well, the only thing that gets dumped into space is the urine, and that no longer is dumped into space, or at least was not dumped during Skylab, but that was during the early, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
	www.nas.nasa.gov /About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/SPACE.HTML (5337 words)

	2 astronauts devise asteroid collision plan / 'Tractor beam' could push rogue rock off its path to Earth
		With this in mind, former astronaut Russell Schweickart wrote a letter in June to NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, suggesting the agency send a mission to plant a radio transponder on Apophis to better monitor its orbit.
		Schweickart heads the B612 Foundation, an organization of experts who advocate developing a spacecraft that can alter an asteroid's speed enough to keep it from colliding with Earth.
		Schweickart originally advocated a tugboat strategy to dock with an asteroid and push it gently off its collision course, but he endorsed Lu and Love's idea as "a delightful way to pull an asteroid instead of pushing it -- we're all (in the foundation) sort of uncles to the tractor beam."
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/14/MNG3EFNQHO1.DTL&type=science (921 words)

	Rusty Schweickart - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		}}Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (born October 25, 1935, in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American astronaut.
		This page was last modified 13:57, 16 April 2006.
		Rusty Schweickart, Education, Astronaut experience, External links and 1935 births.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Russell_Schweickart (391 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Global Focus
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Alan: According to the weather data, the prospects for clear skies here fore tomorrow were 96%.
		Schweickart, Is there anything that you are particularly interested in when it comes to this eclipse, especially given your previous experience with the Apollo program?
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Rusty: I think the biggest cultural difference is being an Islamic state--and a fairly strong one--in that all of the women have to be covered all the time.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/zforum/99/inatl081099.htm (2721 words)

	Asteroid-watchers worry about cosmic Katrina - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		The goal of B612, a confab of scientists, technologists, astronomers, astronauts and other specialists, is to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by 2015.
		Schweickart said there are key capabilities that will enable humanity to avoid devastating cosmic collisions: early warning; a demonstrated deflection capability; and an established international decision making process.
		Congress did require NASA to provide by the end of 2006 an analysis of possible alternatives that could be employed to divert an object on a likely collision course with Earth.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12665493/wid/6448213 (946 words)

	SPACE.com -- In Defense of Earth: Keeping Asteroids at a Distance
		Schweickart recently advocated the need for a United Nations "Asteroid Deflection Treaty" - an international agreement to help shape a "trustworthy system" that nudges threatening space rocks out of harm's way.
		One of the action items on the foundation's to do list this year is developing the first version of a "design reference mission" - laying out the requirements for a demonstration mission to deflect an asteroid by 2015.
		Joining Schweickart in B612 Foundation work is noted asteroid expert, Clark Chapman, a scientist here at the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies in Boulder.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/asteroid_deflection_030205.html (1484 words)

	Rusty Schweickart Autographed Photo
		Apollo astronaut Russell "Rusty" Schweickart has signed this 8x10" photograph of his spacewalk outside the Lunar Module "Spider".
		Schweickart was the first Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) to fly the moon lander in space aboard Apollo 9.
		Schweickart autographed these photographs on October 14, 2004, during the Association of Space Explorers' "Evening With The Astronauts" hosted at Countdown Creations' Rocket Town in Houston, Texas.
	www.countdowncreations.com /autoasesch.htm (115 words)

	Eastbay Astronomical Society
		Russell Schweickart, Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 9 and the first person to step outside a spacecraft without an umbilical cord, also served as Commissioner of Energy for the state of California.
		Schweickart is currently Chairman of the Board of the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the future of humanity by developing and demonstrating ways to deflect asteroids that are heading our way.
		He will discuss what we know about the threat of cosmic rocks and the various ways that have been suggested for saving the Earth from large asteroid impacts, including both nuclear and non-nuclear alternatives.
	www.eastbayastro.org /index/xtrapages/schweickart.htm (172 words)

	Russell Schweickart - No Frames, No Boundaries
		In the following piece, astronaut Russell Schweickart shares his experience of a particularly spectacular gift that came as part of orbiting the earth during March of 1969.
		It is beautiful in and of itself, but I also find it a powerful metaphor for all the other gifts with which we in North America have been blessed.
		We see "the Earth now as it truly is, bright and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats," and "men and women as riders on the Earth together, on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold, brothers and sisters who know now that they are truly brothers and sisters."
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC03/Schweick.htm (984 words)

	American Scientist Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Russell L. Schweickart, who earned a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, was formerly a fighter pilot and a NASA astronaut.
		He piloted the lunar module of Apollo 9 in 1969 and four years later served as the backup commander for the first Skylab mission.
		Schweickart has worked in various capacities for the California state government, for NASA headquarters in Washington and for several private companies.
	www.americanscientist.org /template/AuthorDetail/authorid/1544;jsessionid=aaa5dphZusS-HJ (90 words)

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