American scientist, astronaut, businessman and policy adviser (born 1935)
Rusty Schweickart
Schweickart in 1971
Born
Russell Louis Schweickart
(1935-10-25) October 25, 1935 (age 88)
Neptune, New Jersey, U.S.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS)
Awards
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
Space career
NASA astronaut
Rank
Captain, USAF[1]
Time in space
10d 1h 0m
Selection
NASA Group 3 (1963)
Total EVAs
1
Total EVA time
1h 17m
Missions
Apollo 9
Mission insignia
Retirement
1977
Website
Official website
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.
Schweickart was selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first crewed flight test of the lunar module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the portable life support system used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. As backup commander of the first crewed Skylab mission in 1973, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office of Applications.
Schweickart left NASA in 1977 to serve for two years as California Governor Jerry Brown's assistant for science and technology, then was appointed by Brown to California's Energy Commission for five and a half years, serving as chairman for three.[2]
In 1984–85, Schweickart co-founded the Association of Space Explorers and later in 2002 co-founded the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to defending Earth from asteroid impacts, along with fellow former astronaut Ed Lu and two planetary scientists. He served for a period as its chair before becoming its chair emeritus.
^"Russell L. Schweickart". New Mexico Museum of Space History. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
^"Biographical Data for Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart" (PDF). NASA. September 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 25, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
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