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	Rusty Schweickart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		In May 2005 Rusty Schweickart told the U.S. Congress that a mission to attach a device such as a radio transponder to asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly known as 2004 MN4) should be a high priority; it is estimated that this asteroid has a 1 in 6000 probability of striking the earth in the 21
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rusty_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.
		In 1979 Schweickart was appointed to the post of Commissioner of Energy for the State of California and served on the Commission for five and a half years.
		Schweickart is an Honorary Trustee and a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
	www.well.com /~rs/rls-bio.html (988 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)

	Schweickart
		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.
		On March 7, with McDivitt and Schweickart once more in the LM, Scott separated the CSM from the LM and fired the reaction control system thrusters to obtain a distance of 5.5 kilometers between the two spacecraft.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/schckart.htm (1742 words)

	Rusty Schweickart
		Rusty Schweickart was the first person to pilot the Lunar Module (9 Apollo 1969), a test of the craft that would later put men on the moon.
		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.
	www.nndb.com /people/878/000023809 (225 words)

	NW News \| Shuttle tragedy has personal connection to Woodinville man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Schweickart was integrally connected with the space shuttle, as he was a project coordinator for one of the science experiments being conducted on board the craft by the astronauts.
		Schweickart developed a love of space and everything associated with it, but he knew that he didn’t want to be an astronaut, so he chose a slightly different pathway from his father.
		Schweickart is standing next to the plaque that was placed on the remains of the structure that was to be used to launch Apollo 1.
	www.nwnews.com /editions/2003/20030210/front1.html (1196 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)

	Apollo: The History and The Hoax - To the Moon: The Spider's Flight.
		The Lunar Module pilot, Russell "Rusty" Schweickart, was the first civilian to fly in the Apollo Program, but with a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics he was more than qualified for this LM shakedown run.
		Schweickart and McDivitt then started to prepare the LM for entry, pressurizing the docking tunnel, removing the hatches, checking the locking clamps and setting up the power umbilical that was to power the LM while it remained attached to the CSM.
		The suits that all the Gemini crews and that Rusty Schweickart and Dave Scott performed their EVA's in were the same in design as the ones that Neil Armstrong and the other eleven moonwalkers would use and since they didn't Balloon either there must be a reason.
	lokishammer.dragon-rider.org /Apollo/apollo9.html (4271 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Former Astronaut, Engineers Hope to Deflect Asteroid
		Former astronaut Rusty Schweickart, chairman of the foundation, spoke about its goal at the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California.
		Schweickart was the lunar module pilot on the Apollo Nine mission in 1969, and he is urging the U.S. space agency, NASA, to support the deflection project.
		Schweickart and his colleagues say it is only a matter of time before one hits us.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-12-17/25051.html (641 words)

	Rusty Schweikart - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Schweickart, Rusty, born in 1935, American astronaut, born in Neptune, New Jersey.
		In his only flight, Schweickart was the first to test the Apollo...
		The Expos became the first Canadian-based team in major league baseball in 1969 when the club joined the National League (NL) as an expansion team....
	encarta.msn.com /Rusty_Schweikart.html (81 words)

	Astronauts push for strategies, spacecraft to prevent calamitous asteroid strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rusty Schweickart is among former NASA astronauts advocating for advance planning against a potential asteroid strike on Earth.
		Schweickart, who flew on Apollo 9, and space station veteran Ed Lu have established a foundation to help bring awareness to the issue.
		Schweickart agrees that based on the current odds, a deflection mission for Apophis would be a waste of money.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05332/613441.stm (1311 words)

	Contact
		Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart was relaxing in the hospitality suite in the Santa Clara Marriott early on Saturday morning.
		Rusty made the assumption that it is probable that we will eventually be fully in command of this threat; having catalogued the paths of all known asteroids and comets and with the capability of picking up the unknown ones far enough away to take action to avert catastrophe.
		Rusty showed pictures of supernovae explosions and brought up the potential mega-threat of a gamma ray burster- a class of stellar event that is still poorly understood, but one that is known to have a deadly impact on nearby life- possibly across half the galaxy.
	www.newmars.com /archives/000051.shtml (4119 words)

	Astronaut Bio: Russell Schweickart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Schweickart came to NASA as one of the 14 astronauts named in October 1963.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/schweick.htm (600 words)

	The Space Review: Sounding an alarm, cautiously
		Schweickart focused on a particular scenario where the 2029 flyby puts 2004 MN4 on a new orbit with a 7:6 resonance with the Earth’s: the asteroid would complete six orbits of the Sun in the time it takes the Earth to complete seven.
		Schweickart notes that the actual cost could be significantly higher given the built-up, valuable nature of the California coast.
		Schweickart made it clear he was not trying to raise alarm about 2004 MN4, but instead trying to kickstart the government to think about the risks of such impacts and the need to plan accordingly.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/384/1 (2465 words)

	APOLLO MISSION CONTROL PHOTO PLUS
		Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot, is photographed from the Command Module "Gumdrop" during his extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission.
		Rusty Schweickart is seen jumping into the life raft following the Apollo 9 splashdown.
		Apollo 9 LM Pilot Rusty Schweickart speaks to personnel aboard the USS Guadalcanal, prime recovery ship, an hour after he and his fellow crewmen splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.apollomissionphotos.com /index_org_ap9.html (3672 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Global Focus
		Alan Hale and Russell Schweickart: Rusty: I guess the most powerful memory that I'll remember is the beauty of the country and the warmth of the people.
		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--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)

	KRT Wire \| 12/08/2006 \| World must focus on asteroids, foundation warns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As an astronaut, Schweickart logged more than 240 hours in space and piloted the lunar module for Apollo 9, a test flight before the 1969 moon landing.
		Though the asteroid in 2004 passed with an ample margin, Schweickart says we need to be ready for the day when the threat will be real.
		Schweickart and other concerned space veterans formed the B612 Foundation to urge NASA and the worldwide space community to mount a practice mission.
	www.sunherald.com /mld/sunherald/news/nation/16194423.htm (765 words)

	It Came From Outer Space / Do we leave the responsibility of heading off species killer asteroids to FEMA? Or is the ...
		Schweickart and a group of aerospace professionals including Clark Chapman and Dr. Daniel D. Durda of the Southwest Research Institute, Ed Lu of NASA's Johnson Space Center and Piet Hut if the Institute for Advanced Studies, were some of the original attendees at that workshop and they "launched" the B612 Foundation shortly thereafter.
		Schweickart also thinks NASA has been reluctant to take on asteroid deflection because is steals from a budget already stretched thin.
		Schweickart attended the closed-to-the-public "idea gathering" workshop representing the B612 Foundation, and along with Ed Lu presented three white papers on trajectory dynamics and threat mitigation of NEOs.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/CMGHDL517N1.DTL (2898 words)

	The Space Show hosted by: Dr. David Livingston
		You will want to hear what Rusty Schweickart says about this, what his foundation, B612 is doing, how they are trying to work with the UN and move this issue to the level of importance it deserves.
		Rusty Schweickart is the current Chairman of the B612 Foundation which has as its goal to significantly alter the orbit of an asteroid in a controlled manner by the year 2015.
		Schweickart is also well known as an astronaut having joined NASA as one of 14 astronauts in October 1963, the third group of astronauts selected.
	www.thespaceshow.com /detail.asp?q=484 (610 words)

	Pravda.RU Asteroid to ram Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rusty Schweickart and Edward Lu said a mission of this type could be launched to an asteroid in 2015.
		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.
		Mr Schweickart told a hearing that "the media and the general public realise that asteroids are of more than passing interest." More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /science/2004/04/08/53309.html (1717 words)

	Goddard Engineering Colloquium Announcement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Schweickart was the founder and president of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), the profession organization of astronauts and cosmonauts.
		From 1977 to 1985 Schweickart served in California state government, first as Assistant to Governor Jerry Brown and subsequently as Commissioner of Energy.
		He is currently Chairman of the Board of the B612 Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the future of humankind by developing and demonstrating the capability to deflect asteroids from Earth impact.
	ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov /archive/2005-Fall/announce.schweickart.html (418 words)

	DigitalSpace Commons : Apollo IX Virtual World
		Bruce Damer and Rusty Schweickart floating around the third stage of the Saturn V, a vehicle that Rusty rode to orbit in March 1969
		Rusty Schweickart in an orange suited "Gagarin" avatar outside of the hatch of the Command/Service Module, June 17
		Rusty next to an instrument on the virtual moon and landing reinactment area Rusty entering the airlock in a virtual Skylab, with no surfaces on internal walls
	www.digitalspace.com /worlds/apollo/apollo9.html (278 words)

	GBN: The Home Planet
		ON APOLLO 9 IN 1969 Rusty Schweickart was the first human to go EVA without an umbilical and the first to fly a space craft which could not re-enter the Earth's atmosphere (he test-flew the lunar landing module several miles of Earth orbit away from the command module).
		One night when Rusty and his former wife Clare and I were camping in Nova Scotia and we were watching a bright polar satellite swing overhead,
		Rusty was one of the founders of an international astronaut/cosmonaut organization called the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).
	www.gbn.com /BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=113 (1132 words)

	Millennium Ark: Hot News
		Photo: Rusty Schweickart holds a 3-D model of the asteroid 1998 KY26 near where an asteroid could hit the Earth.
		Two of the astronauts - Apollo 9's Rusty Schweickart and shuttle and space station veteran Ed Lu - have even helped establish a foundation to spotlight the issue.
		Schweickart and Lu's B612 Foundation - named after the home asteroid of the Earth-visiting prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "Le Petit Prince" - is pushing for an orbit-altering demonstration by 2015 on a harmless, way-out-of-the-way asteroid.
	www.millennium-ark.net /NEWS/05_Space/051107.asteroid.coll.html (1161 words)

	SPACE.com -- Mission Possible: Asteroid Tugboat Backed for Trial Run
		Lead author of the article is former astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9's lunar module pilot that put the Moon landing craft through its paces high above Earth in March 1969.
		Schweickart told SPACE.com that the B612 proposal is meant to educate public and political communities to the fact that Earth-approaching asteroids are a natural, environmental threat.
		Schweickart said the cost of a trial-run asteroid tug mission is quite modest and well within the capability of the NASA budget to handle.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/asteroid_tug_031015.html (1305 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| NOVA scienceNOW: October 3, 2006 \| PBS
		RUSTY SCHWEICKART (B612 Foundation): We would have three and a half hours of waves, 55 feet high and larger, crashing onto the shore.
		RUSTY SCHWEICKART: If you use a gravitational tractor, where you're pulling it using gravity as a tow rope, you know precisely what you're doing and what's happening to the asteroid all the time.
		RUSTY SCHWEICKART: I think the world public is going to want to know for certain that something's going to work, when you go up and try to, you know, deflect an asteroid from wiping out life.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/3313_sciencen.html (8302 words)

	News Article: Schweickart Proposes Study of Impact Risk from Apophis (MN4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rusty Schweickart and the B612 Foundation have asked NASA to further study the possibility that this asteroid might return to hit the Earth after its close approach in 2029.
		But if a deflection were required after 2029, it would have to be enough to miss the much larger target of the Earth itself, which is far beyond present technology for as asteroids this large.
		Following is a communication from former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart discussing these options.
	impact.arc.nasa.gov /news_detail.cfm?ID=161 (1397 words)

	New age / esalen / rusty schweickart
		Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart (born October 25, 1935, in Neptune, New Jersey) is an American astronaut.
		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).
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/rusty_schweickart.htm (290 words)

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