Neil Degrasse Tyson The Case For Space Speech

In The Case For Space, Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Barack Obama effectively destroyed 7,500 jobs when he descaled the space shuttle program, but used rhetoric to mask his neglect for American jobs. The Case For Space is an article Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2012 that is a more detailed backbone upon which his address to the Senate is based upon. Similar to his speech, Tyson gives several examples of how increasing NASA’s budget would have a positive impact on the economy. One of those examples is the massive American job growth opportunity. After talking about the effects of George W. Bush’s original plan to phase out the Space Shuttle program, Tyson turns to Obama’s new plan, which Obama pronounced …show more content…
By using rhetoric to hide his intention to destroy jobs in science from the public, Obama shows that he doesn’t give jobs high priority, but also doesn’t want that to be reflected in his public image. Obama might have heavily influenced the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to not pass bills in support of American job growth that would have interfered with his priorities so that he wouldn’t have to be the one publically responsible for striking the bill down. If that were the case, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s rhetoric would have needed to appeal to the president as well as the committee to have a chance at persuading them to increase NASA’s …show more content…
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a 59-year-old astrophysicist from New York City, New York. With degrees from Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics, Dr. Tyson is a credible person to speak about the value of space science. Neil has served on two government committees in both 2001 and 2004 under the Bush administration to discuss the future of science and space exploration strategies. Therefore he has had multiple experiences working with politicians, giving him the knowledge of how to effectively communicate with them. Lastly, Neil deGrasse Tyson is very well known. He has been the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History since 1997, hosted the popular StarTalk podcast, hosted the television show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and authored four books. As a Washington Post reporter on Tyson’s speech put it, “Tyson is likely the world’s most beloved astrophysicist — a strong ambassador for the flagging agency” (Kolawole). Most people even slightly interested in space or science have probably heard of Neil deGrasse Tyson, which is important because NASA can use his popularity as a persuasion