A New Congressional Caucus Backs Planetary Science

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Republican Randy Hultgren and Democrat Derek Kilmer celebrate formation of the new bipartisan, bicameral caucus of US representatives and senators. They have united behind exploration of our and other solar systems. Bill Nye shares his eye and ear witness account of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch and landing. The new What’s Up space trivia contest takes its inspiration from the Tesla Roadster now on its way to Mars.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Congresspeople love space too, this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	A new congressional caucus is bringing together Republicans and Democrats, members of the House and Senators, and elected
0:25.6	representatives from throughout the USA.
0:28.9	We'll spend a few surprisingly happy minutes with Republican Randy Holkran and Democrat Derek Kilmer.
0:35.9	You want nonpartisan?
0:37.3	Look no further than the Planetary Society's Bruce Betts.
0:40.9	He's back with the latest news, the choices to random space facts, and the most rewarding
0:45.8	of space trivia contests.
0:48.2	Right up front is another visit with the CEO of the Planetary Society, Bill Nye, the Science Guy is back from watching the
0:54.8	SpaceX Falcon Heavy do its thing. Bill, I am so envious of you and
1:01.0	Jason Davis, our colleague Jason, who wrote about the Falcon Heavy of you and
1:04.0	and Jason Davis, our colleague Jason,
1:03.0	who wrote about the Falcon Heavy launch
1:05.0	that both of you got to witness,
1:07.0	not just the launch, damn it,
1:09.0	but the landing in the blog
1:12.0	at planetary.org What were your impressions?
1:15.0	Well, it's fantastic. So everybody understand
1:18.0	that SpaceX, Matt, was able to strap together three Falcon 9 first stages and Falcon Nine has nine engines.
1:25.5	There's 27 first-stage engines. So it was a very powerful rocket. I guess not quite as
1:31.5	powerful as the space shuttle at full throttle, but crazy powerful
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