Top 21 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart

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.

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

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

We got to the moon.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

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

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