{"id":8941,"date":"2014-10-03T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2014-10-03T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T00:57:02","slug":"b612-foundation-update-on-neo-projects-video-of-rusty-schweickart-talk-at-nasa-ames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8941","title":{"rendered":"B612 Foundation update on NEO projects + Video of Rusty Schweickart talk at NASA Ames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest newsletter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/sentinelmission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">B612 Foundation<\/a>, which is dedicated to protecting earth from a the disaster of a large asteroid or comet impact on earth :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us5.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=c7281b61ab362fadf221e16fc&amp;id=a0cbabf3f9&amp;e=4d39cfe765\" target=\"_d\">Sentinel and Beyond: The Sentinel Mission Newsletter! Vol. 15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sentinelmission.org\/sentinel-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel Mission<\/a>\u00a0is their plan to fund privately a\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0specialized for observing and counting\u00a0all the near earth asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a video of a recent talk by former Apollo astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/sentinelmission.org\/our-team\/#\/rusty-schweickart\" target=\"_blank\">Rusty Schweickart<\/a> on<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbI49-MwGvA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;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 :\u00a0Sentinel and Beyond: The Sentinel Mission Newsletter! Vol. 15. The\u00a0Sentinel Mission\u00a0is their plan to fund privately a\u00a0spacecraft\u00a0specialized for observing and counting\u00a0all the near earth asteroids. Below is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B612 Foundation update on NEO projects + Video of Rusty Schweickart talk at NASA Ames<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2kd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3191,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3191","url_meta":{"origin":8941,"position":0},"title":"Astronauts sell space memorabilia to support asteroid observatory","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The B612 Foundation is raising money for their asteroid finding space observatory by selling memorabilia from Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Shuttle\/ISS astronaut Ed Lu: B612 Foundation items in Auction Cause Charity Auctions store on eBay! 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