NASA Administrator James Bridenstine Returns
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We talk with NASA’s leader about how the agency is meeting the challenge of the pandemic. He looks forward to the future with confidence as he offers updates on projects including the Perseverance Mars rover, the Artemis Moon program, and the effort to send U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station on U.S. commercial crew vehicles. Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreier marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13 and introduces us to his remarkable new planetary exploration budget dataset. What’s Up also celebrate the “successful failure” of Apollo 13 as Bruce Betts tours the night sky and presents a new space trivia contest. Learn and explore more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0415-2020-nasa-admin-james-bridenstine.html
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| 0:00.0 | NASA Administrator James Bridenstein returns this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:18.0 | NASA in the time of COVID-19, the leader of the United States Space Agency will share with us how it is meeting the |
| 0:26.2 | challenge of the pandemic and looking forward toward what he still sees as a bright future |
| 0:32.2 | across the expanse. |
| 0:33.8 | You'll only hear this conversation on planetary radio. |
| 0:37.6 | We'll look back at Apollo 13 with Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreyer. |
| 0:42.4 | Casey will also introduce us to his planetary exploration |
| 0:46.1 | budget data set. |
| 0:48.2 | We'll close, as always, with an examination of the night sky courtesy of Bruce Betts. |
| 0:53.4 | Bruce will reveal the performers of the first concert in space and much more. |
| 0:59.0 | All of that is ahead right after this week's glance through the Down Lake, |
| 1:02.4 | the Planetary Society's gift of resources. right after this week's glance through the downlink, |
| 1:02.5 | the Planetary Society's gift of resources |
| 1:05.4 | that will fuel your interplanetary journey |
| 1:08.2 | for the next seven days. |
| 1:09.9 | Don't miss its shot of Saturn's rings taken through the thick atmosphere of Titan by the |
| 1:15.6 | Cassini spacecraft. Comet 2i Borisov, an interstellar visitor that was detected passing |
| 1:22.0 | through our solar system last year |
| 1:24.0 | has apparently split into two pieces. Researchers made the discovery using the Hubble |
| 1:29.1 | Space Telescope. Bruce will have more comet news during what's up. |
| 1:33.0 | NASA has closed the application period for its latest round of would-be astronauts. |
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