This post is written by B612 Co-founder, Rusty Schweickart. Rusty is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a retired business executive and co-founder of B612 Foundation. October 7 marked 15 years since B612 was formed to protect the...
One Week to Asteroid Day! June 30, 2017 B612 is proud to be a founding partner of Asteroid Day. Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids, the impact hazard they may pose, and what we...
Thanks to a growing partnership with the government of Luxembourg, Asteroid Day has moved its headquarters to Luxembourg City. On June 30th, Asteroid Day will be producing Asteroid Day LIVE from Luxembourg 24-hour live broadcast of general and technical programming about all things asteroid related. Ed...
The field of planetary defense has grown dramatically since 2012, and the scope of B612's activities has grown along with it. With a new year underway, I want to take a moment to recap a few milestones already achieved this year. I also want to report...
Ed Lu is an explorer whose quest is to map the unknown—whether by surveying the oceans at Liquid Robotics, leading Google Advanced Projects Team to map our neighborhoods, or his current work unveiling the secrets of the inner solar system with the Sentinel Mission. Ed...
Rusty, an Apollo 9 astronaut, was the first Lunar Module Pilot on the mission. He co-founded B612 with Ed Lu, and served as its chairman until 2011. He is the founder of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) and served as president of ASE-USA. He...
Asteroid Day Expert Panelist, B612 Chair Emeritus and Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart at the California Academy of Sciences on June 30, 2015. Photo by Donald Kinney. Rusty Schweickart, in conversation with B612 Foundation COO Danica Remy, talks about the recent Asteroid Day events around the...
Scientists around the world held what they billed as the first annual Asteroid Day on Tuesday, giving lectures and hosting panel discussions promoting projects designed to detect threats from space before it’s too late. The scientists who organized the events said humans must do a better...
Rusty Schweickart is an American aeronautical engineer, and a former NASA Apollo 9 astronaut, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, as well as a former business executive and government executive. In this talk, Rusty talks all things asteroids. --- Asteroid Day, June 30th 2015 California Academy of Sciences San...
B612 Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to planetary defense from asteroids. Founded in 2002, in our first decade, we worked to find technical solutions for asteroid deflection, assuming the necessary first step of discovering and tracking threatening asteroids would be managed by the...