Watching the Skies, with the US Space Command

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Neil Tyson flies to Thule Air Base in Greenland to investigate the intersection of space exploration and the military. With Chuck Nice, Laura Grego, PhD, Prof. Priya Natarajan, Colonel Thomas Colvin, General John Raymond, General John Shaw, Tim Norton, and Bill Nye. Thanks to this week’s Patrons for supporting us: Renee Douglas, Ernesto Chavez, Julia Lyschik, Sydney Reising, Andy Green, and Cherrico Pottery. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons and All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/show/watching-the-skies-with-the-us-space-command/ Photo Credit USAF (Public domain).

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0:00.0	From the American Museum of Natural History in New York City,
0:05.0	and beaming out across all of space and time,
0:09.0	this is Star Trek,
0:11.0	where science and popular culture collapse.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe, I'm your host,
0:16.0	the Illegraged Science in Your Personal Astrophysicist,
0:18.0	and tonight, we're featuring my visit to a remote military base in the Arctic.
0:23.0	We're Air Force Space Command,
0:26.0	keeps constant watch over the Earth,
0:29.0	and we're going to be able to see the world's largest
0:31.0	and most of the world's largest
0:35.0	and most of the world's largest
0:35.0	and most of the world's largest
0:37.0	and most of the world's largest
0:39.0	and most of the world's largest
0:41.0	and most of the world's largest
0:43.0	and most of the world's largest
0:45.0	and most of the world's largest
0:46.0	and most of the world's largest
0:48.0	and most of the world's biggest
0:49.0	and most of the world's largest
0:50.0	and most of the world's largest
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