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Andy Meek
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Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on why exploring space shouldn't be left in Musk and Bezos's hands
Neil deGrasse Tyson was not among those of you unreservedly cheering the implications of Jeff Bezos's tweet last week announcing that the Amazon founder's private space venture had sent a rocket on a test flight up to almost 330,000 feet and successfully landed it back on earth.
I know, because I interviewed Tyson himself a few weeks ago, and one of the things we talked about - which didn't make it into my piece then - was his disappointment with how private space efforts seem to be leapfrogging the government's interest in funding and pursuing such things.
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