On June 30th, the world came together to celebrate Asteroid Day's 5th anniversary in Luxembourg. B612 co-founders Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Ed Lu, along with B612 President Danica Remy, joined dozens of other asteroid experts from around the world for three incredible events. Asteroid Day Technical...
Rusty Schweickart, Apollo Astronaut, and Asteroid Day and B612 co-founder, gave a moving speech this Asteroid Day about humanity 50 years after Apollo. “It wasn’t Neil Armstrong who could look back on Earth, but it was all of us. That was the significance of Apollo […]...
Members of the B612 community flew to San Diego from all over the country to celebrate the 50th anniversary of B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart’s flight on Apollo 9. The Air and Space Museum of San Diego, home to the Apollo 9 Command Module, hosted the mission’s...
Fifty years ago today, astronaut Rusty Schweickart had 5 minutes alone above the Earth. 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission, crewed by Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart. There will be many celebrations of the mission. Some were this...
B612 Founder Rusty Schweickart recently spoke to Space.com about asteroids and Apollo 9. You can read the full interview here. "In order to protect the Earth, you've got to know where the asteroids are and where they're headed, and we realized at one point several years...
It’s been a month since Asteroid Day 2018, and we want to share with you the reach and significance of what the B612 helped make happen on June 30. Ed and Rusty have been educating and advocating for the world to pay attention to the risks of...
The Asteroid Institute’s Spacecraft System Engineer, Jonny Dyer, presented a talk on the history and current state of the commercial spaceflight sector. Dr. Ed Lu and Rusty Schweickart shared their perspectives on the future of the sector from their years of experience leading B612 and...
B612 and Ed Lu were mentioned in a recent segment on BBC World News about National Geographic’s article “They Saw Earth From Space. Here’s How It Changed Them.” Watch the video here (B612 gets discussed at 1:50) ...
I joined B612 five years ago because I wanted to be part of a global effort that was different, inspirational and pioneering. I wanted to be part of a movement that could literally change the world. At that point in my life, I wasn’t an...
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