An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a… — 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
