Spaceward Bound

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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NASA astronaut Mike Massimino joins us to discuss the perils and promise of human space flight now and into the future.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	StarTalk begins right now.
0:16.0	Welcome back to StarTalk Radio.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:20.0	I'm an astrophysicist and director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:25.0	The subject this week?
0:27.0	Space word bound?
0:29.0	Or not?
0:30.0	And my co-host this week is Chuck Nice.
0:33.0	Welcome back.
0:34.0	And I also have with me in studio Mike Massimino.
0:37.0	Name like that, you have to have been destined for something great.
0:40.0	He's a NASA astronaut, veteran of two space shuttle missions.
0:44.0	STS-109, that's how they designate these things.
0:47.0	STS.
0:48.0	STS, I think that stands for space transportation system.
0:51.0	Can you get less romantic than that?
0:53.0	Yeah, you're going to frickin' space.
0:56.0	You would think you would come up with something better than space transportation system.
1:02.0	STS-109, that was on board Columbia, which we would later lose a couple of years later.
1:07.0	That's correct.
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