Planetary Radio Extra: Casey Dreier on the 2016 NASA Budget
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The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 22 December 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a planetary radio extra one of those opportunities that we periodically take for an extended conversation |
| 0:06.4 | with someone special and that someone special this week has a special topic. |
| 0:10.9 | It's Casey Dreyer, our director of advocacy at the Planetary Society. |
| 0:15.7 | He can also be heard on this week's episode of Planetary Radio, the December 21st, 2015 episode with a quick summary of what has turned into very good |
| 0:29.2 | news for for NASA and space fans It precedes our extended conversation with |
| 0:34.9 | Representative John Culberson, a Texas congressman who led the fight to |
| 0:40.2 | increase NASA's budget, but we have time now to go into a bit more detail with Casey and |
| 0:45.8 | Casey welcome back. Hey Matt, happy solstice by the way. Happy solstice to you. Lots to celebrate. I think we may get to talking when we get to commercial crew. |
| 0:57.0 | I think we ought to bring up a certain success by SpaceX, just a couple of hours actually before we are speaking this evening |
| 1:04.4 | but first give us an overview just how great is this news it's really good |
| 1:12.1 | but let's actually let's just talk about SpaceX for a second because |
| 1:16.0 | this literally just happened a few hours ago and it was very cool so I just need to |
| 1:20.9 | get it off my chest. We just saw the return of the first stage of the |
| 1:26.2 | Falcon 9 and Falcon 9's return to flight after the disaster that lost the spacecraft, not the spacecraft lost the spacecraft and the |
| 1:34.9 | the spacecraft and the rocket earlier this year |
| 1:36.7 | very exciting really great step towards ultimate reusability of the rocket |
| 1:42.0 | fantastic it just looked great I thought Matt were you just blown away reusability of the rocket. Fantastic. |
| 1:43.0 | I just looked great. |
| 1:44.0 | I thought, Matt. Were you just blown away by this? |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, man, yeah, I was. |
| 1:47.0 | And I was looking for people watching the webcast, |
| 1:49.0 | people I know at SpaceX who are just so thrilled. |
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