DALLAS —
A former Apollo astronaut will meet with officials at NASA heaquarters in mid-June to discuss his grave concerns about the agency’s recent report to Congress about potential ways to deal with asteroids that might hit the Earth some day. Russell “Rusty” Schweickart, the lunar module pilot for the Apollo 9 mission, called a recently issued NASA report on dealing with Earth-threatening asteroids, “flawed” and “not valid” while speaking at a space conference in Dallas May 27.
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