Planetary Society All-Stars Review 2020 Space Milestones

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🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Chief Scientist Bruce Betts, Editorial Director Jason Davis, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Advisor Casey Dreier, and Communications Strategy and Canadian Space Policy Advisor Kate Howells join host Mat Kaplan for our annual look back at the closing year’s accomplishments in space exploration. They also predict 2021’s biggest events on the final frontier. A very cool prize awaits the winner of the new What’s Up space trivia contest. There’s more to discover at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/1230-2020-2020-review-betts-davis-dreier-howells

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0:00.0	Planetary Society All Stars Look Back at 2020 this week on Planetary Radio.
0:07.0	Welcome and Happy New Year everyone.
0:12.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of
0:15.8	the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. It's a tradition
0:21.1	four of my colleagues are here with a review of the past year and a look ahead.
0:27.0	2020 wasn't so bad.
0:29.0	Once you got off the surface of our world,
0:32.0	Bruce Betts is part of this Quartet. He'll stick around for the last
0:35.2	what's up before 2021. We'll offer one of the coolest prizes ever in the new space trivia
0:42.0	contest. Here's a program note in view of the holiday
0:45.8	Casey Dreyer and I have decided to push the next space policy edition show from
0:51.6	New Year's Day to the following Friday, January 8th.
0:55.6	I hope you'll join us.
0:57.3	I also want to thank each of you who has given us a review or rating in Apple Podcasts or elsewhere. Also for your many wonderful holiday
1:05.6	greetings. They are much appreciated. The December 25 edition of the
1:10.3	Downlink, the Planetary Society's weekly newsletter, shares a very cool image of the James
1:15.6	Webb Space Telescope.
1:17.7	The Giant Eyes multi-layer Sun Shield was successfully deployed for the last time before its planned launch in October of 2021.
1:27.2	You'll hear more about the JWST later in the show, along with what China's Changieu 5 will be up to now that it has dropped off its
1:36.2	collection of lunar material, the spacecraft might become a solar observation platform. The Planetary Society is celebrating now. Solar Observation Platform.
1:42.6	The Planetary Society is celebrating NASA Authorization for the missions that will bring samples
1:48.4	from Mars to Earth.
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