We need early warning systems, technologies to deflect an asteroid - and we need political preparedness as well. It needs to be clear who is to decide what, who launches the rockets, who presents which bills to its citizens. This… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening. — 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
