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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. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned 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 manned 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.〔(Biographical Data for Russell L. (Rusty) Schweickart ), NASA. Accessed July 7, 2011.〕 In 1984–85 he 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 Dr. Ed Lu and two planetary scientists. He served for a period as its chair before becoming its chair emeritus. == Early life and education == Rusty Schweickart was born October 25, 1935, in Neptune Township, New Jersey, and grew up on a "handscrabble" farm of producing hay and vegetables plus raising poultry and cows. As a youth his ambition was to be a pilot and a cowboy.〔 After graduating from Manasquan High School in 1952, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering on scholarship and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1956 and 1963 respectively.〔〔(MIT-alum Alumni list, MIT ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology webpage.〕 He was active in the Boy Scouts of America. He earned the rank of First Class.〔(Rusty Schweickart at scouting.org )〕 His hobbies include golf, bicycling, and hiking. He was married twice and has seven children. His family's stated annual income when he received his Massachusetts Institute of Technology scholarship after graduating high school was listed as $1,800.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rusty Schweickart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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