Community Quote by John M. Grunsfeld

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as…

— Kesha Rogers

It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible threat to our planet. And since then, there's been a…

— Carrie Nugent

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then, every potentially…

— Carrie Nugent

By searching the sky now, me and other asteroid hunters hope to give us the early warning - ideally decades - that we need.…

— Carrie Nugent

Asteroids are often seen as a threat, but they are also an opportunity. The use of space resources holds a large potential for future…

— Etienne Schneider

On the whole, asteroids tend to leave Earth alone. And day to day, there really isn't cause for most people to give them any…

— Carrie Nugent

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually…

— Ellen Ochoa

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing…

— Jared Diamond

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all…

— Buzz Aldrin