Its Asteroid Week with NASAs Planetary Defense Officer

Published: June 27, 2018, 3 p.m.

b'The dinosaurs regret their lack of a space program.\\xa0 200 million years later, humans are gearing up to defend themselves from a species-ending rock.\\xa0 The many challenges involved are addressed in a new strategic action plan created by sixteen agencies of the US government.\\xa0 NASA\\u2019s Planetary Defense Officer, Lindley Johnson, and his associate, Kelly Fast, take us inside the plan.\\xa0 Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guy applauds the growing worldwide attention to Near Earth Objects. By the time you read this Hayabusa2 will have reached asteroid Ryugu.\\xa0 Senior editor Emily Lakdawalla has a mission update. And Bruce Betts is all over Asteroid Week in a new What\\u2019s Up segment.'