The Moon: Why Are We Really Going Back?

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The moon race is back! Countries — and billionaires — are lining up to take a crack at returning to the moon. But why are we really going? Some say this is a lunar gold rush, that countries want to mine the moon for resources. Others are saying the real reason to go to the moon today is that it’ll help us get to Mars. To find out, we talk to engineer Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid, physicist Prof. Nicolle Zellner, and astronomer Prof. Gregg Hallinan. Check out our transcript here: https://bit.ly/3oC5kMx This episode was produced by Meryl Horn and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, and Michelle Dang. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. Thanks to the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr. Tom Simko, Professor Jack Burns, Dr. Paul Byrne, Dr. Martin Elvis, Dr. John Mather, Dr. Jennifer Whitten, Dr. Ian Crawford, Dr. Simon J Lock, and Dr. Greg De Temmerman. Special thanks to Chris Suter, Jack Weinstein, the Zukerman family, the Fausther-Keeys family, and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman, and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.
0:04.2	This is our last episode for this season.
0:06.8	We'll be back early next year.
0:09.2	But today, we are putting facts against frontiers.
0:15.2	As we tackle the moon and ask, why are we going back?
0:25.7	It's been around 50 years since we first stepped foot on the moon.
0:30.6	And hell aboot Madrid, who studies space exploration now, remembers that day so clearly.
0:37.3	He was eight years old, living in two hour Mexico.
0:40.8	And the day of the landing, he and his friends were so excited.
0:44.8	Among ourselves, we thought, what's going to happen?
0:47.6	There's humans going to land on the moon.
0:49.6	And we all thought that a nail in it's going to jump into their spacesuit and then come
0:54.0	back to earth and control everybody.
0:57.1	At around 9 pm that night, unhelp was asleep, but his dad woke him up.
1:02.6	And I just remember very clearly, my dad shaking me, okay, come on, you got to watch this.
1:08.1	What do you remember from saying on the screen?
1:12.6	He was a small black and white TV, and he was this grainy picture.
1:18.5	And I started watching and I see the humans stepping out.
1:23.8	One small step for man.
1:25.8	One by a leap for man, guys.
1:32.8	My dad keeps saying, this is a momentous occasion.
1:36.3	Oh, we were talking about it the day after everybody was talking about it.
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