"From the moon, the Earth is so small……" — Rusty Schweickart
"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 out with your thumb. Then you realize that on that spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you — all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it right there on that little spot that you can cover with your thumb. And you realize from that perspective that you’ve changed forever, that there is something new there, that the relationship is no longer what it was."
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Rusty Schweickart
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16 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart
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It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
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Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
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It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not…
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to…
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No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
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