Boosters, Breakthroughs and Budgets: Canada and the US Look Toward Space

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The last few days have seen developments that will shape the space exploration plans of Canada and the USA. The Planetary Society’s Kate Howells is a member of Canada’s Space Advisory Board. She reviews the nation’s new space policy. Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreier takes us through highlights of the just-released NASA budget proposal from the White House. He also looks back at the Day of Action that brought citizen space advocates to Capitol Hill. Bruce Betts smells the coffee on the International Space Station in What’s Up. We close with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s passionate message for the Day of Action volunteers. Learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/03013-2019-howells-dreier-bridenstine.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Dollars and Good Sense of Space in Canada and the USA, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm At Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our
0:17.2	solar system and beyond.
0:19.4	The White House has unveiled its proposed20 budget for the United States.
0:25.2	One little corner of that budget, well under 1 percent, is set aside for NASA.
0:30.6	The plan contains good and bad news according to planetary society chief advocate
0:36.1	Casey dryer. He'll provide a top-level overview and he'll tell us about the Monday
0:42.0	March 4th day of action that put 100 citizen space advocates
0:47.0	in the offices of their Washington representatives.
0:50.5	Bruce Betts can smell the coffee on the International Space Station.
0:54.0	He'll share some of that goodness on this week's What's Up segment,
0:58.0	and then a special treat just for you podcast listeners.
1:01.0	We'll hear from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein as he spoke to the Day of
1:06.3	Action Volunteers. First, though, we'll travel north of the U.S. for a visit with the Society's
1:11.7	Global Community Outreach Manager Kate Howells.
1:15.0	She talked with me from her home, not far from Toronto, Ontario in Canada.
1:20.0	Kate, welcome back to Planetary Radio.
1:22.0	It's a good time for us to talk 60 years since
1:26.2	the first Canadian satellite made Canada only the third nation to reach low-Earth orbit to go into space and now all of this new work
1:36.4	new announcements by the Canadian government is this something of a renewal or
1:41.2	reaffirmation of Canada's plans for space exploration and space commercialization.
1:47.6	Yes, it absolutely is.
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