Cosmic Queries: The Space Race

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🗓️ 16 September 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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What did politics and the Cold War have to do with the space race? On the flip side, how did the Apollo program and landing on the Moon impact us here on Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson answers fan-submitted questions chosen by 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.
0:22.2	This is Star Talk and I'm your host, your personal astrophysicist and yielded grass Tyson.
0:27.4	I work at the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City where I also serve
0:32.7	as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:35.8	And for this episode of Star Talk, we're doing what we call cosmic queries where questions
0:41.5	come to me from our social media.
0:46.0	And but I don't even know what they are until I walk in and sit down at this microphone
0:51.1	and I get help today from Chuck Knife.
0:54.0	Hey Neil, what's happening?
0:55.4	Chuck.
0:56.4	Good to be here, man.
0:57.3	Thank you, sir.
0:58.3	Always good to be here.
0:59.3	So you're going to read one of these questions.
1:02.0	What is today's topic?
1:03.0	Today's topic is the space race.
1:07.4	Okay, I think I know a little bit about that.
1:10.2	A little bit about that.
1:11.2	I got this.
1:12.2	Okay.
	...

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