Career After NASA
Schweickart has spoken and taught at the Esalen Institute. Schweickart is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the B612 Foundation, a group that aims to defend Earth from asteroid impacts.
In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Schweickart is portrayed by Kieran Mulroney.
Schweickart appeared in the television series The Universe in the episodes "The End of the Earth: Deep Space Threats to Our Planet" and "Stopping Armageddon".
In May 2005 Schweickart told the U.S. Congress that a space flight to attach a transponder onto the asteroid 99942 Apophis (formerly named 2004 MN4) should be a high priority. Some astronomers estimated that this asteroid has a chance of about one in 6000 of striking the Earth in the 21st century. Later data indicate that the chance of Apophis hitting the Earth is about one in 45,000 in the year 2036.
Schweickart approved the story of his life and career that appeared in the book In the Shadow of the Moon in 2007.
In 2010, Schweickart served as the co-chairman of the NASA Advisory Council Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense.
Schweickart, along with cosmonauts Alexey Leonov, Vitaly Sevastyanov, and Georgi Grechko, established the Association of Space Explorers in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space.
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