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19 quotes by Rusty Schweickart

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. Selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group, he is best known as the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first manned flight test of the Lunar Module, on which he performed...
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We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

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When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

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All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.

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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.

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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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There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

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We got to the moon.

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Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 -... →

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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... →

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By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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