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Enter to win a copy of "Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future", autographed by David Grinspoon, aka Dr. FunkySpoon, author, astrobiologist, and host of StarTalk All Starts with Neil deGrasse Tyson at www.elemental.fm/win In this episode, Jack and Newton discuss NASA's 2017 budget, the 2017 climate march, and delays in Exploration Mission 1. They also touch on China's plans for a manned space station and an impending problem with American manned spaceflight.   Links: Latest from Washington House Science held a panel on astrobiology and the Search for Life While the Senate has a hearing on something a little closer to home Climate March on Washington Crowds of 200,000 estimated NASA receives more than $19.6 billion in 2017 omnibus spending bill   Space News Highlight of the Week GAO Expects EM-1 to slip into 2019 NASA agrees International News  China to begin construction of manned space station in 2019   Latest in Tech  NASA is running out of spacesuits The space ethernet physical layer trans