30 Issues: Space Force

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 30, 2018

John Logsdon, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, and author of The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight, explains what creating a new branch of the military would look like and its salience in the midterms.

EVENT: See John Logsdon in conversation with Astronaut and best-selling author Scott Kelly at The American Museum of Natural History on  Monday, November 5, 2018 at 7:30. 

 

 

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