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Astronomycast live from Dragoncon 2012.

Space money.

So welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos.

We tell you not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me, as always, in person, yay!

It's Dr. Pamela Kay.

So this week, we're doing a live show from Dragoncon.

We've got our regular show, Part Plan, which we're going to do for the first 20 minutes or so, 25 minutes,

and then we'll go into your insane questions where you try to break Pamela.

And I will help you by making the questions even more complicated.

So please, if you've got some zingers, start formulating them now, and then together,

we'll work together to really ruin Pamela's brain.

That was what the hug was for. We're done with that.

So we've probed the deepest recesses of the universe, landed spacecraft and humans on other planets in moons.

But face it, all of this exploration is expensive.

Just a single spacecraft can cost billions. So who pays for all this stuff?

So Pamela, and this has been one of the big issues that we've been dealing with in the last couple of years.

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