How climate change is affecting space race
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A rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
Part of NASA’s mission is to find new real estate, so to speak, in space – places for humans to eventually colonize and spread out to – but right now, the agency is facing a serious real estate problem on this planet; the fact that their multi-billion dollar Kennedy Space Center is built so close to the water.
Reporter Maddie Stone has just written an in-depth article about this for Gizmodo entitled: “The biggest threat to NASA’s future is the ocean” and in this interview, she tells Pulse Host Maiken Scott about what NASA is doing to protect its assets.
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