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John Young

John W. Young (1930—) is an astronaut of the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.

Knowledge of future extinction events is useless without action

The last 25 years of NASA’s Solar System exploration including Earth is telling us what we need to do to preserve our species. This new knowledge is useless unless we act on it.

John Young, “The Big Picture: Ways to Mitigate or Prevent Very Bad Planet Earth Events,” balettie.com, 1999?, http://space.balettie.com/Young.html.

Human spaceflight is about the long-term survival of the species

Knowing what we know now, we are being irresponsible in our failure to make the scientific and technical progress we will need for protecting our newly discovered severely threatened and probably endangered species—us. NASA is not about the ‘Adventure of Human Space Exploration’, we are in the deadly serious business of saving the species. All Human Exploration’s bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul.

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