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On November 4, President Trump announced that he would renominate Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, to lead NASA. This comes after Trump abruptly withdrew Isaacman’s original nomination in June.
Science journalist and editor Sophie Bushwick joins Host Ira Flatow to discuss that and other science news of the week, including Chinese astronauts stranded on the Tiangong Space Station, an all-day gamma-ray burst, and the first video of an orca pod slicing open a great white shark to eat its liver.
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Segment Guests
Sophie Bushwick
Sophie Bushwick is senior news editor at New Scientist in New York, New York. Previously, she was a senior editor at Popular Science and technology editor at Scientific American.
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