Very smart man.
I am a fan of Tyson’s, but even smart guys get it wrong, sometimes. As I sometimes say, doing something stupid occasionally, doesn’t mean you are stupid.
Edison was an idiot too based on all those failures before a successful light bulb.
He joins Neil Armstrong himself in arguing for government monopoly of space. Them and all their friends work for NASA… the agency that actually erased all the film of the first moon landing! The most amazing thing in all of human history and Neil deGrasse Tyson (a pretend astrophysicist, more of an astronomy buff) wants to keep SpaceX and Blue Origin out.
Oh, c’mon Nick. Nothing ever goes wrong when guberment runs things.
Stole this little gem from the lounge 
You mean the live TV tapes? Yep, erased. But that a moon hoax does not make.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost-apollo-11-tapes
He’s so stupid. As is anyone who promotes to the masses that big government central planning is the way things get done.