Space Policy Edition: A Mob at the U.S. Capitol
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This is not your normal episode of the Space Policy Edition, but these are not normal times. The centuries-old U.S. tradition of the peaceful transfer of power ended on 6 January 2021, as a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol building during the certification of the electoral college vote, leaving 5 dead. Hours later, more than one hundred members of Congress voted to object to the certified electoral results of Arizona and Pennsylvania. Jared Zambrano-Stout, former congressional staffer and chief of staff of the National Space Council, joins the show to help process these events. We’ll return to our usual space policy content in February. Discover more here: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0115-2021-spe-jared-zambrano-stout
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to a delayed space policy edition of |
| 0:18.9 | Planetary Radio better late than ever we skip the first week because of the holiday. We hope that all of you |
| 0:25.3 | have had a happy and satisfying new year as much as possible. And then we skipped the second Friday in January because, well, there was a lot going on in the capital of the United States, |
| 0:40.0 | which of course is where most of our discussions are centered around here on the space policy addition. |
| 0:46.7 | Now we're ready to talk. We didn't want to delay it any further. |
| 0:50.5 | So joining me as always is the chief advocate of the planetary society our senior space |
| 0:56.4 | policy advisor also Casey dryer who is on the road Casey I hope you are somewhere |
| 1:01.8 | safe and doing well. |
| 1:03.8 | I am Matt, thank you for asking and thanks for being flexible all of our |
| 1:07.9 | listeners for our delayed show this month. |
| 1:10.6 | There is no getting around both the elephant and the donkey in the room and and that I |
| 1:18.0 | think is what we will be able to tell from your guest today. I've just listened to you talk with him, a fascinating, |
| 1:25.9 | sobering, but I think inspiring conversation. You want to just give us a preview of who's coming up in moments? |
| 1:33.4 | Let me start with what I wanted to talk about today. |
| 1:36.4 | I wanted to talk about the fact that NASA has a new budget for |
| 1:41.2 | 2021 and we had written about this online if you're curious. budget for 2021. |
| 1:42.6 | And we had written about this online if you're curious. |
| 1:45.3 | I wanted to talk about the upcoming administration |
| 1:49.1 | and what it could mean for NASA. |
| 1:50.5 | And I wanted to talk about policy developments happening in Space Force and other things. |
| 1:56.2 | But I don't feel like I can talk about that without acknowledging that we watched a riotous mob, a violent mob, |
| 2:06.4 | descend upon the U.S. capital last week. |
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