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NASA’s Vision for Space with Charles Bolden

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4.614.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How important is space exploration? What’s next? Mars? Europa? Find out when Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden. Neil is joined in studio by astrophysicist Dr. Michael Shara and Bill Nye.

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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.

0:13.0

APPLAUSE

0:18.0

Tonight I have a very special guest host, the one, the only then inimitable, Bill Nye, the science guy.

0:24.0

And here to help.

0:26.0

Yeah, thank you.

0:27.0

Well, tonight we're featuring my interview with Charlie Bolden, General Charles Bolden, the head, the administrator, which in government speak means you're the highest ranking person, of NASA.

0:40.0

Charlie Bolden, I went to Washington.

0:42.0

Well, I got the interview in NASA headquarters and we talked about everything.

0:47.0

Past, present, future, NASA. He was an astronaut himself.

0:50.0

And one of his missions he like repaired the Hubble Space Telescope.

0:53.0

He drove the ship.

0:55.0

Yeah, yeah.

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It's a fighter pilot from the Earth.

0:57.0

Now, I know you're a space guy, but I wanted more.

1:00.0

So I combed the landscape and happens to be in my department, the Department of Astrophysics, here in the Rose Center of Earth in space, we find Mike Sharrah.

1:10.0

Mike Sharrah, curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

1:14.0

Thanks for joining Star Talk.

1:15.0

Absolutely, Mike Sharrah.

1:16.0

Next one.

1:17.0

Nice to meet you, sir.

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