Space Policy Edition: A Trillion-Dollar Space Economy?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Bhavya Lal joins the show to discuss the size of the space economy, where it's going, and how the term itself can mean many different things to many different people. In a world filled with breathless claims about trillion-dollar economies, we dive down into the fundamental assumptions about space commerce, its potential for growth, and the pitfalls of motivated thinking in the hyper-optimistic space community. Learn more about this month’s topics through links on the show page. https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/space-policy-edition-51.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the July Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of Planetary Radio and the Planetary Society, joined by the Planetary Society's chief |
| 0:27.0 | advocate and our senior policy advisor Casey Dreyer. |
| 0:31.1 | Welcome Casey. |
| 0:32.1 | Hey Matt, happy 4th of July to all of our U.S. listeners and happy Canada Day to all of our listeners in Canada. |
| 0:39.0 | We are actually recording this on Canada Day and our couple of |
| 0:43.9 | Canadian colleagues are celebrating as they should be. It's a strange time to be |
| 0:48.5 | celebrating but certainly we still have a lot to celebrate including a lot of great stuff happening in in space |
| 0:54.9 | exploration. Casey, I will jump right to something else. I mean now is when we |
| 0:59.4 | would usually push joining the Planetary society, going to planetary.org |
| 1:05.2 | slash membership, so there I just have. But it's not too late to talk about |
| 1:10.3 | another drive that we have on underway right now, an advocacy campaign. |
| 1:15.0 | That's true. As our listeners probably know, you and I don't work for free, even though we probably would if we could. |
| 1:22.0 | Shh, don't tell anyone. |
| 1:24.0 | But we're running a fundraising campaign |
| 1:28.0 | that helps directly fund the advocacy and policy work |
| 1:32.0 | that I do, that my colleague Brendan does and the society |
| 1:35.8 | writ large does on your behalf as members and supporters of the planetary society. |
| 1:41.8 | As a reminder, we're not an organization that is funded |
| 1:45.9 | primarily by corporations. We're not an organization funded by government. We're an |
| 1:50.4 | organization funded by people. |
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