#ed lu

Check out our new Photographer Spotlight featuring Ed Lu, a highly accomplished scientist and an astronaut who has logged 206 days in space over three missions for NASA. Now he’s working as the CEO of the B612 Foundation, a non-profit whose goals include protecting the Earth from Armageddon-style asteroid destruction. Oh, and he’s also the guy who installed the toilet in the International Space Station (ISS).

In a conversation at The Long Now Foundation, veteran astronaut Ed Lu shows how many known asteroids NASA has discovered that pass near the Earth's orbit, and gives the odds that one could impact our planet.  

Ed Lu talks about Liquid Robotics and how this new technology may fundamentally change our understanding of the oceans.