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We have a super wonderful show, it is my great pleasure to bring on the host, the Robert

Planet of Astrophysics, ladies and gentlemen, Neil deGrasse Tyson.

So, all tonight is about the human exploration of space.

So let's get to our guests, you guys please.

Yes, I would like to bring out a very funny comic, someone who was sadly British, ladies

and gentlemen, the wonderful and very funny John Oliver.

So, there's actually a good friend of mine, a journalist, he's actually a geologist

by professional training.

He wrote the book from Earth to the Moon, on which the 12-part TV series was based that

came out about 10 or 15 years ago.

He wrote a book on getting to Mars.

You guys all into this, and he's been into it since he was a kid.

Join me in giving a warm New York welcome to Andrew Shaken, Andrew, come on out.

Andrew, you've written about the moon almost like you were there.

Yeah, well, I talked to all the guys who did go there, that's not-

Well, you didn't actually go to the moon, I'd invite you on the show.

Listen, I am a storyteller of space.

So what I did was I went around and talked to all the guys who went to the moon for eight

years, collected their experiences and wrote it down.

By the way, the name of the book is a man on the moon.

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