We've officially arrived at the end of the year.

Goodbye 2019 and Hello 2020.

For anyone who might not know why it matters launched this year, and with a new year ahead,

we decided to look back over our first episodes and include some of the audio that got left out.

Here's a fun fact.

The interviews we do for why it matters are each about an hour long.

As a result, they get edited down, a lot.

And as with all editing, sometimes you have to kill your

darlings losing favorite quotes and comments for the sake of time and story it's a

tough thing to do I'm Gabrielle Sierra and this is why it matters

The clip show today some gems from 2019 that we just couldn't bear to leave behind. Our first clip is from an episode called Space Jam that

aired in December. If you didn't catch it, this episode looked at space debris and space militarization.

Two things that could one day make it impossible for us to explore the Cosmos.

This clip is part of a much longer discussion I had with Stuart Patrick, a senior fellow in global

governance at the Council.

We chatted all about the important things, like satellites and GPS and Wally. Here we get

into the idea that maybe space could use some better marketing. Do you think if

NASA did something like a little more grabby and snazzy like

launch a car into space that people will start actually following these things

and caring about it? I think that you know there's a lot of people who say why are we going back into space

aren't the unmanned space expeditions or activities don't they tend to get more

bang for the buck in the sense of scientific knowledge etc. I think unfortunately or fortunately if you involve

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