Cosmic Queries: LightSail with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 19 April 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In May 2015, the Planetary Society will launch its first LightSail spacecraft for a “shakedown cruise” in Earth orbit. So who better to answer fan questions about the program than their CEO, Bill Nye, and comic co-host Chuck Nice?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:22.1	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:23.5	Bill Nye here, your guest host this week.
0:25.8	Welcome here with my colleague, Charming Associate Chuck Nice.
0:29.7	Chuck, good to see you.
0:30.7	Hey, Bill, good to be here.
0:32.6	And this week is a cosmic queries in which we answer your questions.
0:38.1	That's right.
0:39.1	We call the questions from the internet and all of our various incarnations, Twitter, Facebook,
0:46.2	social media, all the social media, all the kids.
0:49.3	All the kids with your computer machine.
0:50.8	Yeah, exactly.
0:51.8	So this week our focus, thank goodness Chuck.
0:55.0	Is me.
0:57.0	We're talking about the planetaries society, the world's largest non-governmental space interest
1:02.4	organization, advancing space science and exploration.
1:06.7	And in the interest of full disclosure, you are the fearless leader.
1:09.9	Oh, that's right.
1:10.9	Of the planetaries society.
1:11.9	I'm the CEO and just so you all know, Neil deGrasse Tyson was involved with this.
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