Space Policy Edition: Biden Names His NASA Administrator
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Bill Nelson, former Senator from Florida, congressional astronaut, and father of the Space Launch System, will likely be NASA's next administrator. Casey Dreier and Mat Kaplan also discuss The Planetary Society's global Day of Action, which saw hundreds of Society members meet with elected officials in Washington D.C., along with the news that the National Space Council will continue, and the 40th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, with new budget data. Discover more here: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0402-2021-spe-day-of-action-bill-nelson-nomination
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everybody to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:18.5 | We are glad to have you. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio, the weekly show, and co-host of this monthly |
| 0:26.1 | approach to all that is going on in the world of Space Policy and Advocacy, which is, |
| 0:32.0 | after all, what makes all the rest of it happen, or at least an awful lot of it. |
| 0:36.8 | And so we are once again appropriately joined by the Senior Space Policy Advisor for the |
| 0:41.8 | Planetary Society, our Chief Advocate, Casey Dreyer. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome, Casey, and congratulations. |
| 0:48.6 | Thanks, Matt. |
| 0:50.4 | The congratulations is for our recent completion. |
| 0:54.6 | I should say of our global day of action here at the Planetary Society, so I appreciate |
| 0:59.6 | that. |
| 1:00.6 | Quite a success. |
| 1:02.0 | I want you to tell us some of the details, give us some of the stats of what was accomplished. |
| 1:07.1 | As we speak, it was less than 24 hours ago on the 31st of March. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm just impressed by how you were able to pull this off, you and our colleagues, of course, |
| 1:19.2 | and it's tough enough to do it when everybody flies in and you get to stand in a room with |
| 1:23.6 | everybody. |
| 1:24.6 | And this time, of course, it had to be virtual. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:28.3 | Like many things, this is not how I expected this event to go this year, right, if you would |
| 1:33.6 | have asked me a year ago, well, maybe actually a year ago, maybe just barely. |
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