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• Rusty Schweickart:

  As a former Apollo astronaut, I think it's safe to say that SpaceX and the other commercial develop

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  It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed direct

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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

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  We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We a

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  No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protectio

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

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  When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last

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  Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean se