I just, again, want to point out that there is a 30 percent chance that there is a 5-megaton or so impact that is going to happen in a random location on this planet this century.
I think we need to get far more of the information... to the American public.
The American people are certainly appreciative of the conveniences... that all of these conveniences happen to be space-based.
But what if they put it on one of their rockets in North Korea, sent it up at altitude, and exploded a nuclear weapon?
Does the fact, as we prepare to go to Mars and the stated goal of rendezvousing and landing and returning with a human crew from an asteroid...
Space debris is really a problem. And I was struck several years ago, the deafening silence, lack of criticism of the Chinese when they laun...
Indeed, it has been most enlightening.
There would be nothing like focusing the mind than survival with one of these things heading toward us.
Senator Nelson, you know from, you know, having flown in space, that when you are many orbits ahead of time, very tiny changes in your speed...
And you are going to put up, along with NOAA and the Air Force, Discover in late 2014 for giving us early warning on sun explosions, are you...
Like others who have traveled into space, I myself am no stranger to space threats.