Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to Houston, this time with Space Exploration misconceptions. artshoustontx JonesHallHOU neiltyson
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“NASA and space are culturally a part of what it is to be a Houston resident. I like that fact. I'm going to serve that fact in this talk whereas if I gave this talk in other cities, I'd have to sort of nurse the audience through things that everyone in Houston would already know,” he said. Tyson couples this with a speech delivered by President George H. W. Bush on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum on the 20th anniversary of the moon landing and talked about going to Mars.
“That threat came about with Sputnik and 1957. Within a year, we had created NASA. There was a flame under our ass, and we reacted to a long sequence of advances that the Soviet Union displayed in space. We had to show the world that we were better than our godless, communist, sworn Cold War enemies,” he said. “Every time they did something or plant something, we would react to then repeat it or do it better. They put up a satellite, and we put up a satellite.
Tyson asserts that the lack of fear took the fuel out of NASA's proverbial rocket boosters, and he dismantles even more assumptions during his presentation. He reminds the audience, though, that his presentation is not so much a lecture where he wants people to learn something. He, instead, wants attendees to feel something.
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