So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black… — 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… — 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… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead… — 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
