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Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive.
Mar 13, 2019 · Apollo 9 astronaut Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart is a retired business and government executive. He co-founded the B612 Foundation, a non-profit private foundation that champions the development of spaceflight capability to protect Earth from future asteroid impacts.
The official website of Russell "Rusty" Schweickart. Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart is a retired business and government executive. He has co-founded theB612 Foundation and Asteroid Day. He is also founder the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).
Jun 11, 2024 · Russell L. Schweickart was chosen in NASA’s third astronaut group in October 1963. In March 1969, he flew on Apollo 9, logging 241 hours in space, and later played important roles in NASA’s Skylab program.
Apollo 9 astronaut Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart is a retired business and government executive. He co-founded B612 Foundation, a non-profit private foundation that champions the development of spaceflight capability to protect Earth from future asteroid impacts.
Nov 12, 2018 · NASA astronaut Russell Schweickart's career-defining moment came thanks to a camera problem. During a spacewalk on the Apollo 9 mission, his colleague's movie camera jammed, and Schweickart was...
Mar 6, 2019 · Fifty years ago today, astronaut Rusty Schweickart had 5 minutes alone above the Earth. 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission, crewed by Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart.
Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart is a retired business and government executive and serves today as Chairman of the Board of the B612 Foundation. The organization, a non-profit private foundation, champions the development and testing of a spaceflight concept to protect the Earth from future asteroid impacts.
Rusty, an Apollo 9 astronaut, was the first Lunar Module Pilot on the mission. He co-founded the B612 Foundation with Ed Lu and others, and served as its chairman until 2011. He is the founder of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) and served as president of ASE-USA.
Mar 7, 2015 · Apollo 9's Russell "Rusty" Schweickart was the first of the Apollo astronauts to go outside the spacecraft. In an exclusive interview with XPrize, he recalls that as Dave Scott began filming his...
