Lunar Love

Living on Earth

It’s been 37 years since the last man was on the moon, and now, NASA says, we’re going back. The U.S. space agency will send astronauts to the moon as soon as 2019. Living on Earth’s Bruce Gellerman talks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, about the draw of moon exploration.

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