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Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Space is big - like, insanely, incomprehensibly big - so it's understandable that NASA can seem divorced from the world of cabinet secretaries, White House press briefings, and presidential tweets. Amy Shira Teitel is the host of the YouTube channel Vintage Space and author of Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA. In this episode, she explains how despite its lofty aims, NASA is a lot more political than you might think. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:04.4	Civics 101!
0:08.1	Yeah. Let's do a Mission Control style conversation.
0:12.3	Okay. Uh...
0:13.9	I don't know how that would sound.
0:15.9	T minus 30 seconds to episode go.
0:18.1	Launch control team working no technical issues.
0:20.8	Check.
0:21.3	ATT T-T-L-F-U-L-F-U-L-2, we're ready to go.
0:23.7	Roger.
0:24.4	All right, very good.
0:25.4	Well, I think we have a lot to learn here.
0:27.2	We don't know anything about NASA.
0:30.9	I'm Hannah McCarty.
0:32.5	And I'm Nick Keph at each air.
0:33.7	And this is Civics 101.
0:35.1	And today we're talking about NASA.
0:37.5	NASA Space.
0:43.5	Can you tell me Taylor, how is NASA a civics topic?
0:48.0	Well, NASA is a big government agency.
0:51.4	It's so strange. I feel like it's divorced from Civics.
0:53.8	Like I feel like NASA is a separate thing.
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