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Rusty Schweickart

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (also Schweikart; born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive.

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

Asteroid, Asteroids, Earth, Large, Spacecraft, Would Be

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.

Art, Block, Blue, Games, Mean, Thumb

This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity and awareness, has had a very depressing effect on many people. . . . I don't for a moment think that there's any concept which anyone's working with now which will be followed as a straightforward scenario. But the idea embodied in concepts such as space colonization or space industrialization, or availability of nonterrestrial resources, is fundamental, and it will change the way in which people look at the future.

Colonization, Depressing, Fundamental, Ideas, Thinking, Way

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.

Alive, Big, Events, Extinction, Mean, Percent

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

Able, Human, Order, Reshape, Survival

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

Accepted, Asteroids, Global, Impact, Impacts, Policy

As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.

Become, Moon, Space, Startlingly, Sunlight, Support

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

Addresses, Asteroid, Climate, Impact, Impacts, Prevent

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

Exercise, Musicians, Orchestra, Practice, Read, Symphony

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

Asteroid, Asteroids, Dinosaurs, Impact, Wiped

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.

Earth, Experiment, Human, People, Responsibility

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Either Or, Journalist, Journalists, Scenarios, Things

For the first time in history, we have the chance to change the path of a celestial body. Let's realize what we're talking about here. We would be slightly changing the mechanics of our solar system to enhance our survival. That is gigantic!

Celestial, Path, Survival, Talking, Would Be

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Appreciate, Deafening, Space, Turn, Wish

If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution. . . the evolution of life on this planet.

Asteroid, Future, Impact, Living, Planet, Technology

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

Destruction, Prevent, Property, Save A Life, Should

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

Black, Incredible, Letting Go, Mean, Space, Views