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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

SpaceX and Blue Origin have been driving much of the excitement around space travel for the past several years, but NASA got back in the game today. Dr. Ellen Stofan, the agency’s former chief scientist, explains what’s next for us, Mars, infinity and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So you've heard of data breaches, but what would make the worst data breach of all time?

0:06.3

How about losing 145 million social security numbers?

0:11.9

Breach is a podcast that takes you inside the world's biggest hacks, how they're done,

0:17.4

who does them, and what's really at stake when your private data is

0:23.0

compromised. And this season they're looking into the worst breach ever,

0:26.6

Equifax. You can find breaches that's, you know, beach with an R in your podcast app right now season two,

0:33.0

the Equifax story this time, it's personal.

0:42.5

The president of the United States released a new budget today, his vision for spending,

0:48.3

which is essentially his vision for the country, less than half a percent of that

0:53.8

vision is about something far, far outside this country, outside this planet really.

1:00.2

It's the tiny fraction of the US budget that funds NASA.

1:09.3

NASA used today's budget announcement from the president to talk about its vision for the country in space.

1:16.2

Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Kennedy Space Center and the dawn of a new era in the

1:21.4

exploration of the moon in Mars. And who are we kidding? For the past few years,

1:25.9

it's felt like all the exciting space news has been coming from companies like SpaceX and

1:31.7

Blue Origin. Today, it felt like NASA got back in the game.

1:36.6

First, they talked about something called the Gateway, which will permanently orbit the moon.

1:42.2

The Gateway will enable crew to live and work in deep space for months at a time and serve as an

1:47.1

outpost for human missions to the lunar surface. But the Gateway is just step one.

1:53.1

The moon is the proving ground. Mars is the horizon goal.

1:58.2

Mars. Mars? You mean like the planet where we've been playing with rocks for like decades?

2:05.0

You know, I think what the public misses sometimes is what the broader strategy at Mars is because

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