EDWARD T. LU

NASA has already demonstrated how they can deflect an asteroid that might be in a trajectory to strike the earth. However they must have time to do it, and that meant a new type of telescope had to be built—to detect small, close asteroids—at a cost of $½ billion, the cost of a major highway overpass. The Congress the was one that passed almost no legislation, so Lu and others started a private foundation (B612) to raise the money for the detecting telescope.

NASA has already demonstrated how they can deflect an asteroid that might be in a trajectory to strike the earth. However they must have time to do it, and that meant a new type of telescope had to be built—to detect small, close asteroids—at a cost of $½ billion, the cost of a major highway overpass. The Congress the was one that passed almost no legislation, so Lu and others started a private foundation (B612) to raise the money for the detecting telescope.