Ep 13: Should We Settle Space?

Making New Worlds by Erika Nesvold

Feb 28, 201820:12Science & Medicine

For the last episode of Making New Worlds, we ask the question we skipped at the very beginning: Should we settle space? Featuring answers by many of our guests from previous episodes. The transcript for this episode is...

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