Better Collision Insurance published in American Scientist in Sept-Oct 2005
American Scientist article on the need for Planetary Defense from asteroids by Rusty Schweickart and Clark Chapman...
01 October, 2005
Rusty Schweickart
Better Collision Insurance by Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Clark Chapman
Asteroids smaller than those now being actively catalogued constitute a largely neglected natural hazard. In this American Scientist article, Rusty Schweickart and Dr. Clark Chapman, B612 co-founders, discuss what they see as a missing element in the space program: attention to the possibility of our planet...
30 September, 2005
US Senate testimony of Rusty Schweickart and Ed Lu
Testimony to Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space on the subject of Planetary Defense by B612 leaders....
07 April, 2004
The Asteroid Tugboat by B612 co-founders Rusty Schweickart, Dr. Ed Lu, Dr. Piet Hut and Dr. Clark R. Chapman
To prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth, a space tug equipped with plasma engines could give it a push. B612 co-founders discuss the asteroid deflection method of a “space tug” or the gravity tractor in this Scientific American article. Rather than giving an asteroid a brief,...
30 November, 2003