"I'm not authorized to say if we're building that," he says. "That's like asking someone if they were a spy." Would you be brave enough to go? No, I'd send a Gerbil first through first. People ask me, do you want to ride on Elon's rocket? They say only after he sends his mother brings her back safely,. Then I'll go until then I'm sitting right here. You wouldn't go, huh? Until I tell you what's safe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. He is the host of the weekly show “Star Talk” on National Geographic and the head of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He has a new book “Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization” out now.
Neil deGrasse Tyson joins the show to chat with Theo about cosmic musings, the new space race, facts vs. feelings, flat-earthers, climate change and much more.