Editing Rusty Schweickart (section)

{{Short description|American scientist, astronaut, businessman and policy adviser (born 1935)}}
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{{Infobox astronaut
| name = Rusty Schweickart
| image = RustySchweickart.jpg
| caption = Schweickart in 1971
| birth_name = Russell Louis Schweickart
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|10|25}}
| birth_place = [[Neptune Township, New Jersey|Neptune, New Jersey]], U.S.
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Clare Whitfield|1958|reason=divorced}}|Nancy Ramsey}}
| children = 4
| education = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Science|MS]])
| awards = [[NASA Distinguished Service Medal]]
| type = [[NASA astronaut]]
| rank = [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]], [[United States Air Force|USAF]]<ref name="nmmsh-bio">{{cite web |title=Russell L. Schweickart |url=https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/russell-l-schweickart/ |publisher=New Mexico Museum of Space History |access-date=April 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418103936/https://www.nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/russell-l-schweickart/ |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| time = 10d 1h 0m
| selection = [[NASA Astronaut Group 3|NASA Group 3 (1963)]]
| eva1 = 1
| eva2 = 1h 17m
| mission = [[Apollo 9]]
| insignia = [[File:Apollo-9-patch.png|48px]]
| retirement = 1977
| website = {{url|rustyschweickart.com|Official website}}
}}
'''Russell Louis''' "'''Rusty'''" '''Schweickart''' (also '''Schweikart'''; born October 25, 1935) is an American [[aeronautical engineer]], and a former [[NASA]] [[astronaut]], [[research scientist]], [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] [[fighter aircraft|fighter pilot]], as well as a former [[business executive]] and [[Executive (government)|government executive]].

Schweickart was selected in 1963 for [[NASA Astronaut Group 3|NASA's third astronaut group]].  He was the [[Apollo Lunar Module|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 [[Skylab 2|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|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 Energy Commission|California's Energy Commission]] for five and a half years, serving as [[chairman]] for three.<ref name="NASA-bio Rusty Schweickart">{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/schweickart_russell.pdf|title=Biographical Data for Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart|website=NASA|date=September 2006|access-date=May 18, 2021|archive-date=October 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025204842/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/schweickart_russell.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

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 [[Earth impact|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]].