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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

On the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, Vox’s Brian Resnick says astronauts left something up there that could unlock the origins of life itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of today explained is brought to you by After the Fact.

0:04.4

Believe it or not, After the Fact is a podcast from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

0:10.1

It brings you data and analysis on the issues that matter to you, the environment, the economy,

0:16.4

public health.

0:17.4

Find out more about the show at PewTrusts.org slash explain.

0:21.5

That's P-E-W Trusts.org slash explained.

0:27.9

No, I'm Hastfeld, your producer, reporter here.

0:32.1

Today explained you've been cooking something up in the studio to mark the 50th anniversary

0:37.0

of the moon landing tomorrow.

0:39.1

What have you been up to?

0:40.1

So I was talking to Brian Resnick, senior science reporter at Vox, friend of the show,

0:43.9

friend of the show, and he took me on this kind of long winding moon journey.

0:47.6

Nice.

0:48.6

And then like halfway through, we kind of switched gears and I ended up taking him on

0:52.2

a weird journey.

0:53.2

Huh, where does it start?

0:54.4

So it starts with the fact that everyone wants to go to the moon.

0:57.4

We're going to make a mistake now.

1:02.4

What's old is new again.

1:04.4

There is a big push to return to the moon.

1:07.6

Make no mistake about it.

1:10.0

We're in a space race today.

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