#7: If Voyager had a LightSail... where would it be now? (feat. Planetary Society)
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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If Voyager had a LightSail... where would it be now? This week’s podcast is all about space advocacy, the most exciting missions and a new promising propulsion technology demonstrated in the LightSail projects. Mat Kaplan and Bruce Betts from The Planetary Society join our NewSpaceVision Podcast hosts Sven and Daniel in an inspiring and fun conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. |
| 0:08.3 | 10.9. Ignition sequence of our energy of our energies and skills. |
| 0:16.3 | Because that challenge is all that we're willing to accept. |
| 0:19.9 | All engine women. |
| 0:22.0 | Lift-off. |
| 0:22.9 | We have a lift-off. |
| 0:24.3 | 32 minutes past the hour. |
| 0:26.6 | Lift-off on Apollo 11. |
| 0:28.0 | So welcome to the seventh episode of our podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | We just recorded our last podcast episode two weeks ago, and we really want to keep up this frequency during the next few months |
| 0:39.7 | because there are so many really interesting players within the new space industry and in the space |
| 0:44.9 | industry in general. Thanks, thanks a lot here for Nina and the entire organization of all these |
| 0:50.8 | podcasts and Tjiva for cutting them. Last time we had John Packer from New Space Hub who keeps track of all these podcasts into Jiva for cutting them. Last time we had John Packer from NewsSpace Hub, |
| 0:56.7 | who keeps track of all the news-based companies and news project in New Free. |
| 1:02.1 | Today we are speaking to one of the most influential organizations within the space industry. |
| 1:08.4 | And we have two represents from the Planetary Society. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah, today, it's the very, very first time that we have two guests on the New Space Vision |
| 1:14.6 | podcast, and I'm really so excited. |
| 1:17.1 | It's actually Matt Kaplan, who is the host of the Planetary Radio. |
| 1:21.0 | And we have Ruth Bats, who's an independent book author, Chief Scientist, and also the |
| 1:25.9 | project manager, the program manager of the |
| 1:28.5 | project lightsail. |
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