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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Kickstarter cofounder Yancey Stricker on what it would take to crowdfund a mission to Mars

Corey Protin,Alana Kakoyiannis,Will WeiNov 8, 2017, 01:16 IST

Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Yancey Strickler, the co-founder of the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Watch them talk about everything from the 18th century origins of crowdfunding - Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad - to how the world could kick-start a mission to Mars.

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