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B612 Team Involved in Deflecting Deadly Asteroids

Over a million of these NEAs have the power to inflict damage a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War. Alarmingly, the Tunguska event that took place in 1908 was the largest recorded impact event, as...

Ed Lu on CNN’s The Next List

Editors Note: Ed Lu is a former NASA astronaut and current CEO of the B612 Foundation. His goal is to build a space telescope that will detect possibly cataclysmic asteroids headed for Earth. Watch more about Ed Lu’s incredible mission this Sunday 2:30 P.M. E.T. (all-new time!)...

Out Front with Erin Burnett, CNN

    CNN's Erin Burnett interviews Ed Lu, February 15, 2013 Can we stop an incoming asteroid? OutFront with more information on our planet’s twin asteroid scares today is Ed Lu, a former astronaut who has logged over 200 days in space and now spends part of his time...

Dr Ed Lu on Newsmakers on ABC, Yahoo! News

    "‘Playing Roulette with the Earth," Newsmakers on ABC News, Yahoo! News, February 14, 2013 Ed Lu, who has spent seven months of his life in space, can sometimes sound nonchalant about it. But he’s really not. “Yes, they managed to kick me off the planet three times,”...

The Danger of Asteroids

  B-roll footage with selected quotes from B612 Chair Emeritus and Co-founder Rusty Schweickart, CEO Dr. Ed Lu, and Mission Director Dr. Harold Reitsema....

How the Telescope Works

    B-roll footage with selected quotes from Sentinel Program Manager John Troeltzsch, CEO Dr. Ed Lu, and Mission Director Dr. Howard Reitsema....