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Why We Go To Space? - Professor Christopher Impey

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Channel: Gresham College · 2016 · Education

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We, humans, travel and explore... but why? What makes us go from pre-historic Africa through North America to Patagonia... and today off Earth?

This is an extract from the full-length lecture by Professor Christopher Impey, “Our Future Off Earth”: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/our-future-off-earth

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