Christmas Special: Tales from 2017

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Christmas Special: Tales from 2017

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What does David Bowie’s Space Oddity have to do with SpaceX, should we go back to the Moon or straight to Mars, and what is multi-messenger astrophysics anyway? All these questions and more are answered in our 2017 retrospective, in which we also talk Cassini, Voyager, exoplanets and Laika the dog. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Dec 20, 2017

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Christmas Special: Tales from 2017

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