Video: Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the privatization of space

Friday, May 18, 2012 - 11:00 in Mathematics & Economics

A company called Space-X plans to launch a rocket headed for the International Space Station. Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and author of "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier," talks to Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill.

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