B612 Foundation update on NEO projects + Video of Rusty Schweickart talk at NASA Ames

Here’s the latest newsletter from the B612 Foundation, which is dedicated to protecting earth from a the disaster of a large asteroid or comet impact on earth : Sentinel and Beyond: The Sentinel Mission Newsletter! Vol. 15.

The Sentinel Mission is their plan to fund privately a spacecraft specialized for observing and counting all the near earth asteroids.

Below is a video of a recent talk by former Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart on

the status of the global efforts to protect life on the planet from the devastation of large asteroid impacts and about our prospects of avoiding the same fate as the dinosaurs.