You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.
Rusty SchweickartAn 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.
Rusty SchweickartWhile we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.
Rusty SchweickartIt would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
Rusty Schweickart