neil degrasse tyson, i got to tell you.ause part of you kept disappearing. it was just your hands, it was just your head. but look, i will take any part of you i can get. thank you for being, you know, what you always are. you're just so smart, and you make it relatable and you help us understand what actually matters, in this situation. be well, brother. i will see you soon, i hope. >> good to see you, again. thanks, chris. >> neil degrasse tyson. he's smart. >>> all right. we're going to be right back with the handoff. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. when you sponsor a job, you immediately get your shortlist of quality candidates, whose resumes on indeed match your job criteria. visit indeed.com/hire and get started today. at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear whose resumes on indeed matcof cream cheese.ria. you need only the freshest milk and cream. that one! and the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection. you

. >> and joining me now is renowned astro physicist neil degrasse tyson. r of the book "cosmic queries." neil, so great to have you here and we know you're not reporting to us from outer space although we love the backdrop. thank you for lighting things up on a saturday afternoon. but if tomorrow's flight goes off without a hitch does this matter to humanity's understanding of the universe beyond just fun for those who can afford commercial space travel. is that what we're looking at next? people will fly up to intelligent of space for fun and burn a lot of cash? >> there's no intended science mission for this came but there's a lot of engineering that is being put on display. all right. a rocket plane. a plane that is deployed from another plane. so it's not from a launch pad as we saw from the videos. and then that goes to high altitude and then comes back and lands like a regular plane. so it spend as small amount of time in what we say suborbital where it's not achieving orbital speed which is a vastly different thing for your rocket to do to rather jus

there's been unexplained ufos the biden administration has a report so we are joined by neil degrasse tysonether, next. ♪ all by yourself.♪ - oh. - what? rain. cancel and stay? done. go with us and get millions of felixble booking options. expedia. it matters who you travel with. >>> is there intelligent life in the universe outside of earth. news caster would sit up here like i'm doing with you now to raise the idea. now a new report says most ufo reports are unexplained and outlines three theories of the case that they are natural and look unusual and are not from aliens or it's secret technology from some government, ours or another. and the big one, it's alien technology that is harder to he detect as our own technology improves its ability to record. >>> we are joined by what we think are two perfect experts he neil degrasse tyson, famed astrophysisist, and the author of cosmic quarries. and the former director of the cia under president obama, john brennan. as someone who used to be responsible for the nation's highest secrets, as well as national security planning, why do you say tha

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. >>> today on the drew barrymore show, neil degrasse tyson, and environmental lifetime expert in nikki hilton stops by, head >>> thousands expected to crowd oaklands area this weekend but a recent deadly shooting his top of mind for many. what is being done to keep people safe? that story and more coming up at 5:00. >>> one last check of weather with darren peck. >> keep an eye on the forecast, the fourth of july looks good temperature wise but as far as today is concerned, numbers already in the mid 70s, and just for the quick snapshot on where we are going for daytime highs, low to mid 80s for many inland locations. 82 santa rosa and 80 san jose in mid-60s for the temperature in the cities. 7-day forecast shows a warm up, by the end of the 7-day forecast. >>> finally this afternoon, and 82-year-old aerospace pioneer will make historory later thisi month h is the oldest persrson travavel into spacace. wawally funk will join jeff be on the first manneded flflight the reusabable susuborbital ro funknk was the younungest grgra ofof the 1961 women inin space program,m, the firsrst female

sense of wonderment in the world beyond our own is something world-renowned astro physicist neil degrasse tysonpopular podcast and hit tv series has made his mission to share with others. >> if you go early in the evolution of our species, if you're asleep on your back and you wake up in the middle of the night you see the night sky. and if you do this each night you'll say oh, wapt a minute, there's this dot of light that's moving from night to night. things are happening. and i just wonder whether that simple fact stoked our cosmic curiosity over all these millennia. manifesting today as an urge to actually go there. >> reporter: maybe one day traveling into space will be as easy as buying a plane ticket. until that day comes, all most of us can do is look up and wonder. >> the fact people think oh, it's this contest, i don't flow if those rivalries exist. but in my experience every person that has gone to space, they're anything but tourists. they are curious. they bring real work with them. and when they get home they really make sure that the experience that they had creates ripples here o

we're back with neil degrasse tyson in new york, richel crane and kristin fisher. neil, what is this plane compared to the kind of rockets we think of when we think of space travel, meaning going to the moon or something? >> let's go back to alex shepard in 1961. he was on a mercury redstone sort of launch system, and it was a capsule. and this is in preparation for actually achieving orbit in subsequent missions. in that situation, you launch with the rotation of the earth, because ultimately you want to go into orbit, and if you launch with the rotation, you get that extra speed that the rotation of the earth endows you on launch. so launching beast -- east is always better. when you have a space plane, you get to reach those same altitudes but then sort of fall back to earth and then you experience that weightlessness. it's only while you're falling. when the rockets are firing, you feel those g-forces. when the rockets turn off and then you just sort of coast, that's when you're weightless. but the moment it hits the atmosphere again, it's sufficient density, an

we have neil degrasse tyson to help us think it through. key decisions. right now, this current space race is within a raging pandemic and a lot of inequality and it's drawing unusually intense backlash. there are memes joking about how out of touch it looks. there are lawmakers raising inequality. they are hording wealth as they launch themselves into space. it looks like billionaires making fortunes off of companies with massive climate footprint and use the money to escape the burning planet. amidst all of this one online petition is just saying, maybe bezos shouldn't be allowed to return to earth. over 160,000 people signed that. what's going on here. part is due to sense that things are not good here on earth. specifically, right now. europe is under water. many participant of the world are on fire. the climate crisis rages, covid surging. people are poor and without food. jeff bezos has gotten richer than ever. his total wealth growing over $90 billion during the pandemic. the billionaires can live in their own bubble, they don't have

with me neil degrass tyson. and you're the author of the book cosmic theories and who we are and how we got here and where we're going. so where we're going. let me ask you your view, does space tourism like this and frankly high priced space tourism, really high priced, does that encourage or aid in space exploration? >> i first want to say, this should have been happening decades ago. there is no reason why government should have had the monopoly they did on people's access to space for like 50 years. so that is just my first comment. second, something not highly discussed is or widely discussed is that these two billionaires are not the first billionaire to go into the space. charles simonyi, one of the microsoft billionaires bought a seat on the russian soyez capital and if you're going to open up a new business sector, go for it. i don't have any problem with that. it doesn't become money-making until it becomes more widely available. becomes a commodity for everybody. so i look forward to that for sure. >>

. >> there's been this debate and you heard it last hour with fareed and neil degrasse tyson. where do you come down on the field of test gods? >> severen n years writing this book, five years inside the company and two and a half years writing it, it truly changed me. it forced me to shed some of the cynicism that came very naturally from someone covering politics, and it is -- these are people out in the middle of nowhere trying to do something bigger than themselves. all the stuff about the billionaires, if you're covering space, the billionaire aspect is sort of minor because there are others funding this, but they are building more spaceships and that's what kept me going. this is a vehicle flown by pilots. this is in the spirit of the barnstormers. richard branson, you know, the silk scarf is flapping in the wind is a real image here, and that's different than the more automated, pre-programmed, in the words of some of the virgin galactic pilots, the somewhat more stable environment over blue origin where you get in, you push a button, you blast up and 11 minutes you're

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i want to play something that neil degrasse tyson said speaking to our jim acosta here. let's play that. >> launching from new mexico, space port. okay? that word feels a little weird but is it any weirder than the first people who heard the word airport? okay. just think about that. space port. airport. so, it could be as routine as what time does the train leave? or what time does the plane leave? what time does your rocket leave, in the future? >> so, i mean, he -- he was talking about how this is helping to launch a whole, new industry. i know, from what you just said, you are a huge supporter of commercial-space travel. what are the advantages that -- that space tourism and commercial-space travel might bring? >> there -- it's opening doors to innovation and technology and to all sorts of different opportunities. space manufacturing, resource usage. things that can really make life different, here, on earth. and -- and better for people, not just countries that have a spaceport located in it. [ inaudible ]. more opportunity we have for creative innovation, for succe