Space Policy Edition #1: How We Got Here: Human Spaceflight at the End of the Obama Era

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 3 June 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In the premiere of this new monthly series we briefly examine the latest move by the House of Representatives in the game of NASA's budget and then discuss what Lockheed Martin's new "Mars Base Camp" proposal takes from The Society's Humans Orbiting Mars workshop. Our featured discussion takes a deep dive into the story of President Obama's impact on human spaceflight--how NASA ended up with a mixed program of commercial systems and big government programs.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this first official edition of Planetary Radio Extra Space Policy Edition.
0:06.6	I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio.
0:09.2	Very proud, very pleased to be bringing you this, well it's really still kind of a pilot
0:15.0	in fact we don't even have a real music yet that because that music is still being
0:19.8	composed and performed by one of our partners in this effort.
0:25.0	We'll get to that in a moment.
0:27.3	But we are so pleased to be starting this new monthly series.
0:31.4	The plan is that we will be posting a new episode for you every day. new election year 2016 and yeah you know depending on how you folks respond maybe well
0:45.0	beyond this is something we've done of course two or three times in the past on
0:48.4	sort of an ad hoc basis and had a great time and gotten a great reaction. So it came from my colleague Casey Dreyer, the Planetary
0:57.2	Society's director of space policy, hey, why don't we make this a regular thing? And so I have now on Skype,
1:05.3	both speaking to us from Washington,
1:07.6	though different Washington's.
1:09.2	First, let me...
1:11.2	Yeah, first Casey, hi there.
1:13.4	Hey Matt and my colleague who has yet to be named.
1:16.7	And that would be Jason Callahan, the Space Policy Advisor who's based within the Beltway in Washington, D.C.
1:26.4	Space Policy Advisor for the Planetary Society, right Jason?
1:29.7	Yes, sir.
1:30.7	How are you guys doing today?
1:31.7	Terrific. Yeah, good to see you both.
1:33.0	And it is nice to see you even though it's still just an audio podcast because it's, it's
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