Rusty Schweickart Quotes

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• As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries…
• From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe, that you can block it…
• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.
• The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive…
• This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has…
• All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
• It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
• Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
• It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our…
• We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape…
• No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
• 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 first…
• 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…
• Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility -…
• 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…
• We got to the moon.

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