Credit: Christopher Michael Today, our cofounder Dr. Ed Lu was inducted into the prestigious International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame. This honor places him among a distinguished group of individuals and organizations, including Elon Musk, the Apollo 11 crew, and the James Webb Space Telescope...
In the upcoming book The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration, Dr. Ed Lu and other distinguished members such as former president Teddy Roosevelt, Dr. Jane Goodall, and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, tell their inspiring stories of modern exploration. Dr....
The B612 Asteroid Institute’s Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project continues to make progress. The acronym for our ADAM project has also evolved (replacing Machine with Mapping). This can be summarized by an article in the Financial Times on the need for mapping the...
The best thing the public can do is advocate for increased funding to accelerate asteroid discovery rates. Bennu will not hit Earth. At least not for hundreds of years, say scientists. But the slight odds of it happening have increased by a tiny percentage, thanks to...
In the weeks leading up to Asteroid Day, Kerbal Space Program hosted a planetary defense challenge with judges Dr. Ed Lu and private astronaut Richard Garriott. Thank you to the brilliantscientists and engineers around Kerbin who submitted their planetary defense plan for the 2021 Asteroid Day Kerbal...
ABOUT THIS EPISODE On the latest episode of the Boost VC podcast, Ed and host Adam Draper have a conversation that covers it all! Listen in as they discuss what makes space fun, Ed’s training to command a Soyuz in just 9 weeks, thoughts on colonizing...
Leading up to Asteroid Day, on June 15, Asteroid Institute Executive Director Dr. Ed Lu joined hosts Jason Snell and Stephen Hackett on Relay FM’s “Liftoff,” a fortnightly podcast about space, the universe, and everything. With thoughtful and engaging questions from Jason and Stephen, Ed...
On February 12, 2021, just 3 days before the 8-year anniversary of the Chelyabinsk asteroid blast, Asteroid Institute Executive Director and B612 co-founder Dr. Ed Lu joined Ryan Wyatt of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences for a “Cosmic Conversation.” The California...
With asteroid 2018 VP1 making recent headlines, Dr. Ed Lu, Executive Director of the Asteroid Institute, recently spoke to Salon about the unlikelihood of this asteroid hitting Earth. Lu notes that 2018 VP1 will be like "a shooting star in the sky" if it enters...
While 2020 has handed out plenty of things to worry about, asteroid 2018 VP1 hitting Earth on November 2nd isn’t one of them. You’ve probably seen the sensationalist headlines of a potential Earth impacting asteroid heading our way on November 2, the day before the United...