Science Fiction Is All Up in Your Situation

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"We've got to figure out how we go there more often than every 20 or 30 years, right?" he says. "I really believe this is the beginning of a sort of new wave of exploration in the outer solar system." He adds: "It's one of what we think now are many what we would call ocean worlds in theouter solar system back when you and I were growing up in science"

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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