StarTalk Live at Town Hall with Buzz Aldrin (Part 2)

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🗓️ 22 September 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Join the crew of StarTalk Live – Commander Neil deGrasse Tyson, Co-Pilot Eugene Mirman Buzz Aldrin, John Oliver and Andrew Chaikin – as they conclude their exploratory mission to Town Hall.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.0	We are live from Town Hall, Midtown, New York.
0:25.0	Welcome back to Star Talk Live!
0:30.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson. I'm an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York.
0:43.0	We also serve as the director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:46.0	And I've got with me Eugene Merman, comedian extraordinaire.
0:51.0	Eugene.
0:53.0	And with me is John Oliver.
0:58.0	And John, you got this regular gig on the Daily Show.
1:02.0	I do, very cool.
1:03.0	That's right, normally it wouldn't be cool, but I am sitting with an astronaut.
1:09.0	So it only compounds the failure that the six-year-old goes with myself.
1:14.0	And Annie Shaken, you've become a journalist in your later years of an author writing about space.
1:19.0	And a job is my background.
1:21.0	And a planetary job is welcome to Star Talk Live.
1:23.0	Thank you.
1:27.0	You're on the only, the truly inimitable Buzz Aldrin.
1:39.0	So Buzz, in the 1950s and 60s, everybody expected we'd be on Mars by like 1980.
1:46.0	Given the trajectory we were on, were you disappointed?
1:50.0	Yeah, but I knew we weren't going to do that.
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