Are There Politics on Mars?

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President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This week, after a six-month, 292.5-million-mile journey, NASA{:.small}’s Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of Mars. The United States is the only country to have successfully landed on the Red Planet, but spacecraft from China and the United Arab Emirates recently arrived in Mars’s orbit. In the fifty years since the Cold War space race was at its peak, other governments and private businesses have launched ambitious space programs. How long can the United States remain the leader in space exploration? Adam Mann joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the Perseverance mission and the past and future of America’s space program.

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0:48.1	This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.
0:54.2	It's Thursday, February 25th.
0:56.5	I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.
0:59.2	Thank you, Delta.
1:00.7	Touch on confirmed.
1:02.0	Perseverance.
1:02.9	Safefully on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking the sands of top life.
1:10.0	Last week, NASA's newest Mars rover, Perseverance, landed on the red planet after a six-month,
1:17.6	292.5 million mile journey from Earth.
1:21.6	Perseverance, which will prepare rock and dirt samples for eventual analysis back home,
1:26.6	is the space organization's
1:28.8	most sophisticated attempt yet to discover the secrets of Mars.
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