2020: At Least It Was Good For Space Exploration?

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Between the pandemic, protests, the recession — the list goes on — there was big space news in 2020. And there was a lot of it! To round it up, Maddie chats with NPR science correspondents Nell Greenfieldboyce and Geoff Brumfiel.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:06.3	Maddie Sify here with NPR Science Correspondence,
0:08.8	Nell Greenfield Boys, and Jeff Brumfield.
0:11.0	Hello esteemed colleagues.
0:12.7	Hey, Maddie.
0:13.2	Hello esteemed host.
0:16.4	I think we could all agree, Nell, and Jeff,
0:18.8	that this has been a rough year to put it delicately.
0:22.1	That's a word for it, yes.
0:24.8	And I am delighted to be wrapping it up
0:26.9	and putting it all far, far behind us
0:29.8	today we are going to talk about all kinds of things
0:32.6	that happened in space in 2020.
0:36.0	Absolutely, let's go to space.
0:37.5	Let's do it.
0:38.3	Let's go to space.
0:39.1	All right, so it is hard to look back on this year
0:41.5	and think about anything but the coronavirus.
0:43.3	But in fact, a lot happened off the planet.
0:46.7	Yeah, I mean, it was a really big year
0:48.9	for human space flight in America.
0:51.4	We had the first launch of astronauts from American soil
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