Happy Birthday NASA (and Neil deGrasse Tyson)!!

Neil deGrasse Tyson Testifies Before Senate on the Spirit of Exploration

Dr. Tyson and NASA share a birthday, more or less. Both were born in the first week of October, 1958. To celebrate NASA and Neil’s 54th year in existence, here is the inspirational astrophysicist’s appeal to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on the utter necessity of space exploration … not only to the health of our economy and our technology, but also to our culture.

When he showed up in Washington earlier this year to talk to them, only about half the committee showed up to listen. But as a nation, we would all do well to turn our ears in the direction of people like Neil.

As a birthday present tot hem both, let’s keep doing what we can to push science forward with the coming generations.

(via Brain Pickings)

Source: brainpickings.org

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    This was so well said. It...a very long video (be fully warned), but if you have
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    Big fan of deGrasse Tyson, and I wish him (and NASA) a very happy (approximate) birthday
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