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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the section, Tyson says the government always leads the way to new frontiers. According to Tyson, why will a private company never build the first company on Mars? Since building a colony will not be profitable, private companies will make no effort.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a high school senior, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson boarded a bus from New York City to Ithaca, NY to meet his idol, Carl Sagan, at Cornell University. Sagan, now remembered as the host of the original “Cosmos” series on PBS, encouraged Tyson’s interest in astrophysics.

Detailed explanation-3: -The big bang endowed the universe with hydrogen and helium and not much of anything else. That is, nine out of ten atoms are hydrogen, about one out of ten atoms is helium, and there are only trace amounts of other things. If there were no stars, that would be the beginning and end of the universe.