Would You Be a Space Tourist?

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🗓️ 8 June 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Richard Branson has formed Virgin Galactic and is now taking reservations aboard the maiden voyage of SpaceShipOne. Would you spend the estimated $200,000 for a 45-minute trip into space? Neil and Lynne also discuss the mechanics of sex in space. NOTE: All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/would-you-be-a-space-tourist/?_sf_s=would+you+be+a+space+tourist

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0:00.0	Our universe is filled with secrets and mysteries, leaving us with many questions to be answered.
0:30.0	Now more than ever, we find ourselves searching for those answers as the very fabric of space, science and society are converging.
0:42.0	Here for the first time, these worlds collide.
0:49.0	As we give you the knowledge that breaks the barrier between what is science and what is merely pop culture,
0:57.0	this is Star Talk.
1:00.0	Now, here's your host, Astrophysicist, Dr. Neal DeGrasse Tyson in Comedian, Lin Poets,
1:08.0	Star Talk.
1:11.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
1:13.0	Welcome.
1:14.0	Glenn, how are you today?
1:15.0	I love our intro.
1:16.0	Well, the Comedian, Astrophysicist, Neal DeGrasse Tyson, and Nohuker with a heart attack.
1:23.0	Well, I actually have a day job. It's a director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
1:27.0	I know you and I don't have a day job. I'm a comic.
1:30.0	I'm just a funny monkey who's here to add some color to this.
1:34.0	What are we talking about today?
1:36.0	So, Comedians don't have day jobs. They have night jobs.
1:38.0	That's what you guys work at.
1:39.0	No one goes to the comedy shops at 10 in the morning.
1:42.0	No, not of your normal.
1:44.0	Neal, what is today's show at 10?
1:46.0	Today, we are talking about space tourism because it's the holidays.
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