Rusty Schweickart
Rusty Schweickart
Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickartis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth25 October 1935
CountryUnited States of America
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We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.
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All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
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The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.
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We're sitting in a shooting gallery, with hundreds of thousands of these things whizzing around in the inner solar system. So it's just a matter of time.