Extended Classic – Cosmic Queries: The Space Race

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🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on the Space Race, the global impact of the Apollo program and John F. Kennedy’s political influence. Now extended with more questions on time travel, wormholes, asteroids, and more. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/extended-classic-cosmic-queries-the-space-race/ Photo Credit: NASA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.0	On your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist,
0:25.0	and this is Star Talk.
0:30.0	And for this episode of Star Talk, we're doing what we call cosmic queries,
0:35.0	where questions come to me from our social media.
0:40.0	But I don't even know what they are until I walk in and sit down at this microphone,
0:46.0	and I get help today from Chuck Knies.
0:49.0	Hey, Neil, what's happening?
0:50.0	Good to be here, man.
0:52.0	And welcome back.
0:53.0	Thank you, sir. Always good to be here.
0:55.0	So what's today's topic?
0:58.0	The day's topic is the space race.
1:02.0	Okay, I think I know a little bit about that.
1:05.0	A little bit about that.
1:06.0	I got this.
1:07.0	I got this.
1:08.0	But actually, just so you know, this may sound like a cheap plug,
1:12.0	but it's just, so I wrote a book called Space Chronicles facing the ultimate frontier.
1:17.0	It came out two years ago.
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