Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bringing Commercial Space Fantasies Back to Earth
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http://bigthink.com/ There is a lot of talk lately about what role the privatization of space might play in our future ambitions of space exploration, and Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Big Think "from where I sit there is a lot of delusional thinking there." Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Rodd
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- -: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bringing Commercial Space Fantasies Back to Earth
March 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://bigthink.com/ There is a lot of talk lately about what role the privatization of space might play in our future ambitions of space exploration, and Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Big Think "from where I sit there is a lot of delusional thinking there." Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler ...
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