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484 (Special Edition) |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on April 21st, 2006 | | Guest: Rusty Schweickart |
| Rusty Schweickart returned to The Space Show to update us on developments with near Earth asteroids and Earth's protection. Rusty outlines the steps being taken to get international decision making in place and to put into motion a gravity tug test project. One of the primary areas of important, an area all listeners can help out with is to contact our elected officials to make sure that some agency or group in the United States has accountability and responsibility NEO problems. Right now, there is no official responsibility for NEO with NASA or any other group in our government and having this responsibility is vital. 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. In response to listener questions, Rusty was asked about the possibility of topping Apollo and you will want to hear how he answered that question. He gave us his ideas about the VSE and today's NASA, the Shuttle, and the ISS. As always, Rusty Schweickart is superb resource for us to learn from and this show is no exception to that statement! For further information, you can contact Rusty at info@B612foundation.org and you can learn more about NEO and Earth protection visiting www.B612Foundation.org. |
| About our guest... |
Rusty Schweickart
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. Mr. 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. He was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 9 from March 3-13, 1969, logging 241 hours in space. This was the third manned flight for Apollo and the first manned flight for the lunar module. Rusty did a 46 minute EVA to test the portable backpack used on the lunar surface. He was also the backup commander for the first Skylab mission in the spring of 1973. After Skylab, he went to NASA HQ in Washington, DC as Director of User Affairs in the Office of Applications where he was responsible for transferring NASA technology to the outside world. In the time between NASA and his chairmanship of the B612 Foundation, Mr. Schweickart has been associated with various technologies as President and CEO of Aloha Networks and the Executive Vice-President of CTA Commercial Systems, Inc. and Director of Low Earth Orbit Systems. Space Show listeners are urged to read Rusty's full bio which can be found at http://www.well.com/~rs/rls-bio.html to learn more about his contributions to the world of space development and commerce.
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