Space Chronicles (Part 2)

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🗓️ 19 May 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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How much do politics, economics, competition and fear impact NASA? Find out when Neil deGrasse Tyson and Prof. John Logsdon discuss the space program, from the Cold War to the present day.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:21.7	Welcome back to StarTalk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I'm an astrophysicist,
0:27.7	your personal astrophysicist.
0:30.4	I serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, which is part of the American
0:34.7	Museum of Natural History, and I've got comedian Chuck Knice in the studio here with me.
0:40.0	Good to see you, Neil.
0:41.0	Yeah, as always.
0:42.0	Good to have you back.
0:43.0	So good to be here.
0:44.0	You already did one of these programs with me on space.
0:46.9	Yes, we did.
0:47.9	And I got you back in, because you were like, rolling it.
0:51.4	I love it.
0:52.4	Yeah, we did Chronicles of Space, which is what Space Chronicles is your book.
0:57.4	Yeah, thanks for that plug.
0:59.3	Yeah, you'll get, you know, I'll make it up to you later, no, no, I get another dollar.
1:05.4	No, no, I wrote a book, came out a year ago, just came out of paperback, like seconds
1:09.8	ago, Space Chronicles facing the ultimate frontier.
1:13.6	Facing the ultimate frontier?
1:14.6	I know, it's a kind of layme title, but I really had a different title in mind that I submitted
1:19.8	the manuscript with.
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