Cosmic Queries: Rocket Science Is Hard

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🗓️ 6 February 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Find out why “rocket science is hard” when Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan questions about Antares, Rosetta, Philae, SpaceShipTwo, the Space Shuttle and more with the help of Bill Nye and 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.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and this is Star Talk.
0:30.0	Bill Nye, Bill, thanks for coming on to Star Talk.
0:33.0	It's great to be here.
0:34.0	Oh my gosh.
0:35.0	And I got to call it my favorite thing ever, but it's pretty good.
0:38.0	At Chuck Knife.
0:39.0	Yes, I am here.
0:40.0	Thanks for coming.
0:41.0	Always.
0:42.0	We are now in Cosmic Queries.
0:44.0	Cosmic Queries.
0:46.0	I always wanted to do Cosmic Queries after hours.
0:48.0	Yes, well, we're doing it after hours.
0:50.0	And this is, of course, where we take inquiries from all across the interwebs.
0:56.0	The interwebs.
0:57.0	The internet, our fan base.
0:59.0	Our fan base.
1:00.0	And listeners from everywhere.
1:01.0	And they ask you questions.
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