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Our Future in Space
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Our Future in Space

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Five science communicators sit down at The Amazing Meeting 2011 in Las Vegas to argue about where human spaceflight goes next. Phil Plait, Pamela Gay, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson take the stage together, and the panel format means they interrupt, disagree, and push back on each other rather than delivering separate talks. Tyson makes the case for NASA funding as a driver of national ambition and education, while Krauss presses on the physical limits of crewed missions versus what robotic probes can do more cheaply. Nye speaks to public engagement and the Planetary Society's push for continued exploration, and Gay and Plait bring the working astronomer's view of what the data actually supports. The conversation moves between practical questions, budgets, propulsion, the case for Mars versus the Moon, and bigger ones about why a species bothers leaving its home planet at all. No slides, no narration, just five people with strong opinions and a live audience in the room.