You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial developers embody the 21st century version of… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
Asteroids have hit the Earth millions of times. We can see them as shooting stars every night. When they get bigger, things get complicated.… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness,… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
I am interested in climate change and other topics too. But this thing is so huge, in the worst case we are talking about… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share
