Q2C - Monday October 19th 2009

Commitment to space travel has ebbed and flowed. Physicist Stephen Hawking believes the way to ensure human survival is to continue space exploration. Critics of space travel argue that Planet Earth is in dire need of our attention and resources ri

Guests

Chris Hadfield

Lawrence Krauss
Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University

Chris McKay

Bob Richards

Karl Schroeder

Donna Shirley

Are We Bound For Space?

April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to leave earth and travel into space. But in the near half-century since that day, only 500 others have taken that special voyage. Is that now about to change? Do problems here on earth mean we should start thinking about a new home in outer space?