Return to Venus with David Grinspoon

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Is there life in the Venusian Clouds? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are joined by planetary astrobiologist David Grinspoon to discuss NASA’s return to Venus, our space future, and whether we’ll find life in our solar system.

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0:00.0	Chuck, we're going back to Venus.
0:01.1	Haven't been there in like 50 years.
0:02.8	You know what?
0:03.4	I haven't been at all who don't ever want to go.
0:06.2	Coming up.
0:07.5	What's on the docket for NASA and the search for life
0:10.3	in the solar system with the one and only Dr. Funky Spoon
0:14.4	on StarTalk.
0:15.4	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.1	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:30.1	This is StarTalk.
0:32.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:35.6	And right to my right, Chuck Nye's.
0:37.2	What's up, Neil? All right. Yeah, man. So, one of my favorite subjects today. Yeah? It's going to be astrobiology. Ooh. But not only that, we're going to take some extra twists on it, because we're bringing in the one, the only. Drumroll, please. Dr. Funky Spoon! Dr. Funky Spoon! Oh, David Grinspoon. David Grinspoon, welcome back to StarTalk. This is your like 20th time on StarTalk? Something like that. Hey, yeah, it's great to see you guys, as always. Great to be here. Yeah, yeah. Let me get your resume updated here. a professor at Georgetown University, you're based in Washington, D.C. area.
1:15.1	You're on the board of the Scientific Society for Astrobiology.
1:19.0	That's a new one for me.
1:20.8	Advisory Board of the SETI Institute.
1:22.8	They can't do much better than you on that one.
1:24.8	And on the science team of NASA's upcoming,
1:29.1	Da Vinci Mission to Venus.
1:31.7	Now, you wrote a book on Venus, but was it The Book on Venus?
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