The questions that drive the destinations | Penelope Boston at Breakthrough Discuss 2018

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Channel: Breakthrough · 2018 · Science & Technology

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The search for life in the Universe involves many questions, including where to go, how to go, when to go, and what to do with whatever we discover, each implying financial, political, strategic and, psychological considerations. Penny Boston, Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, asks how to pick through this forest of possibility into the open plains of feasibility.

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