There are always natural disasters and it always seems as though the preparation is somewhat less than adequate. But we have had a series of quite substantial ones here in the last year.
"Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart" is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, United States Air Force/Air Force fighter aircraft/fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and Executive (government)/government executive.
Selected in 1963 for NASA Astronaut Group 3/NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Apollo Lunar Module/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 Skylab 2/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/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.
More Rusty Schweickart on Wikipedia.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.
We were at one point.
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