Packing for Mars (Part 1)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What are the practical considerations for a NASA mission to Mars? Find out when Neil interviews NASA astronaut Mike Massimino and “Packing for Mars” author Mary Roach.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.4	Welcome back to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm an astrophysicist
0:26.5	at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
0:29.8	But I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:33.5	This week, my co-host is comedian Chuck Nice, Chuck.
0:37.8	Hey, Neil.
0:38.8	You've been away too long.
0:39.8	I know, man.
0:40.8	I've missed you.
0:41.8	Oh my gosh.
0:42.8	I haven't seen you in a long time.
0:43.8	I love you, man.
0:44.8	I love you too, man.
0:46.8	Now we've got to break out some beer.
0:48.8	Normally, that comes at the end of the beer conversation.
0:50.8	Oh, there you go.
0:51.8	There you go.
0:52.8	It's great to have you back.
0:53.8	You were like the ideal person for this subject because this topic is, we're calling it
0:58.2	packing for Mars, sending humans to the red planet and not that you're necessarily an expert
1:03.9	on Mars, but you're packing just saying, just saying, right, you never know what you need
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