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Schweickart: Private Asteroid Mission is for the Benefit of Humanity
The B612 Foundation announced in June of this year that it plans to launch the first privately funded deep space mission, a space telescope that will map the inner solar system’s asteroid population and chart their orbits over the next hundred years, with the goal of finding every potentially Earth-impacting object.
“This is a very practical — and necessary — project,” Rusty Schweickart, Chairman Emeritus of B612, and Apollo 9 astronaut told Universe Today. “It can be done, it is exciting and we are trying to get the world to recognize that this is a great investment in the future of humanity.”
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© nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 3 comments |
Post tags: Asteroids, B612 Foundation, Rusty Schweickart, Sentinel Asteroid Telescope
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2012-08-10 12:35:42
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