It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
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 Image
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
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 Image
All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
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 Image
Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
