American - Astronaut | October 25, 1935 -
We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.
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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We got to the moon.
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I don't want people to spend their nights worrying about getting hit by asteroids. But I do want them to encourage their political leaders to invest in the insurance, which will allow us to prevent it from happening.
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The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.
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All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
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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 the Apollo frontier spirit.
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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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There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
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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 family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.
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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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