From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and beaming out across all of space and time.

This is Star Talk, we're science and pop culture, Klai.

This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, as always your personal astrophysicist.

And today is a cosmic queries, special space edition, all space. Why this is the 50th anniversary year of Apollo 11 launching from Earth and landing on the Moon and returning safely to Earth.

Not only that, we want to look at the future of space exploration and I have a lot of expertise in that category so it's just me in this episode.

But I don't do this alone without a co-host. I got Chuck Nice, Chuck. Hey Neil. Do this with me. Can you hang with me? Absolutely.

Because I got, you know, I've been, I got this. Normally we have another expert, but I got this all on my own.

I think you are the expert on space. I think. I'm on the expert on space and out. So we good. We're good.

Totally good. So we good. All right. So, so what do you have? Well, we have questions as we always do.

So what we have been from our clean from the internet and are very many incarnations and we always start with a Patreon patron because they give us money.

Right. Would you like to give us some money? You could give us some money. Read your question.

You don't have to give money. Get your question asked. They just get their questions asked first. Okay. Priority as we say.

All right. So this is, let's say, let me just as introduction to this. Yeah. Just as introduction. Just as an introduction.

I've written two books on space as a, as an exploratory endeavor as distinct from astrophysic. I was going to say you've written more of the two books.

So that's all about space. Yes. Yes. I'm talking about going to space. Okay. I've got two books on that. Okay. So one of them is this one. Right.

Space Chronicles. Space Chronicles. Space Facing. The ultimate frontier.

It's now in paperback and it's more affordable than the hard. I just a quick story about this. Okay.

This is not the title that I submitted the manuscript. All right. No. No. Now you show you wrote this book.

That's what this is. That's exactly the title was the title was Failure to launch.

Oh, the dreams and delusions of space enthusiasts. Oh, well so encouraging.

So encouraging. You can't have a book with the word failure in it. And they got all upset and had meetings after meetings after meetings.

And they came up with I said, fine. So I said space Chronicles facing the ultimate frontier. But this is an indictment of everyone who says, oh yeah, we got to the moon in 1969.

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