I’m about to start reading Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Space Chronicles,” an anthology of essays in which he makes the case for continuing to fund (and increasing funding for) NASA and the manned space program. I saw him talk about this at The Amazing Meeting last summer, and he’s made multiple media appearances to promote the book. He has become our greatest voice promoting discovery, science, and space — this generation’s Carl Sagan, which is fitting because he’s currently working on a new version of Sagan’s seminal TV science series, “Cosmos” (while the original now streams on Netflix).
Here’s a compilation of Tyson’s talking points, set to images from the glory years of our space program, when we dreamed of what could be and then set out to achieve those dreams. Unfortunately, as Tyson says, we have stopped dreaming…