Rusty Schweickart

B612 cofounder and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart receives 2024 Legendary Explorer Award

[caption id="attachment_30228" align="alignnone" width="800"] The 2024 Explorer’s Club awardees. Pictured from left to right: Rita Cowell, Rusty Schweickart, Nico Vincent, John Shears, Callie Veelenturf (front), Frank Culbertson (back), Lynn Danaher, Dante Lauretta, Daniel S. Goldin. Credit: Felix Kunze[/caption]   Today, The Explorers Club honored Apollo 9 astronaut...

Protecting Earth: An Astronaut’s Perspective | Rusty Schweickart at TEDxSonomaCounty

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btgPqRod1c[/embedyt] In his TEDxSonomaCounty talk, B612 Foundation co-founder and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart discusses the concept of “cosmic birth”, how humanity came into existence together, and how we must work together to protect the evolutionary future of life. Rusty takes us on a journey...

Rusty Schweickart Speaks About Apollo At Asteroid Day

Rusty Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut, and Asteroid Day and B612 co-founder, gave a moving speech this Asteroid Day about humanity 50 years after Apollo.  “It wasn’t Neil Armstrong who could look back on Earth, but it was all of us. That was the significance of Apollo […]...

B612 Heads to San Diego for Apollo 9 50th Anniversary Gala

Members of the B612 community flew to San Diego from all over the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart’s flight on Apollo 9. The Air and Space Museum of San Diego, home to the Apollo 9 Command Module, hosted the mission’s...

50 Years Ago Rusty Schweickart Had 5 Minutes Alone

Fifty years ago today, astronaut Rusty Schweickart had 5 minutes alone above the Earth. 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission, crewed by Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart. There will be many celebrations of the mission. Some were this...

Rusty Schweickart Interviewed in Space.com Article

B612 Founder Rusty Schweickart recently spoke to Space.com about asteroids and Apollo 9. You can read the full interview here. "In order to protect the Earth, you've got to know where the asteroids are and where they're headed, and we realized at one point several years...

Strategic Advisor Dr. Brian May Publishes 3-D Book on the Moon Race

B612 Asteroid Institute Strategic Advisor Dr. Brian May has co-authored a 3-D book on the moon race set to be released in November. Brian is not only an astrophysicist and guitarist for the rock band Queen, but he also co-founded Asteroid Day in 2014, alongside...

An Asteroid Day Recap by Danica Remy

It’s been a month since Asteroid Day 2018, and we want to share with you the reach and significance of what the B612 helped make happen on June 30. Ed and Rusty have been educating and advocating for the world to pay attention to the risks of...

Jonny, Ed and Rusty on the Past, Present and Future of Commercial Spaceflight

The Asteroid Institute’s Spacecraft System Engineer, Jonny Dyer, presented a talk on the history and current state of the commercial spaceflight sector. Dr. Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart shared their perspectives on the future of the sector from their years of experience leading B612 and...