Words matter. These are the best Rusty Schweickart Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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 and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.
We’re not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We’re the crew.
We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.
There’s no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.
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.
Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
We got to the moon.
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.
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it’s uncertain where it’s going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community.
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth’s gravity.
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it’s been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.
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 preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
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.
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.
