Space Policy Edition: Canada's Uncertain Future in Space (with Kate Howells)

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Canada was the third country in history to launch a satellite into space, but now lags in its space ambitions, capability, and spending. What happened? Kate Howells, who serves on the Canadian Space Advisory Board, joins the podcast to talk about the challenges facing Canada's future in space and how the nation needs to do a better job of communicating the benefits of space exploration to its citizens. Casey and Mat also look at the latest machinations of the U.S. congress, which has yet to fund NASA for 2019 and is rapidly running out of time to do so. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-32.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.
0:12.8	We're glad to have you for this monthly installment,
0:15.6	the last one of 2018.
0:17.8	I'm at Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio,
0:20.9	coming to every week with the regular version of the show. Now back with my
0:25.4	colleague the chief advocate for the planetary society Casey dryer welcome.
0:29.3	Hey Matt happy to be here again. It's always good to be in December mode starting to look back on 2018 now.
0:35.1	Yes, and we're gonna do a little bit of that in a moment. There have been some developments even though it's only been a couple of weeks since we were on
0:42.1	Before we do that though, why don't you introduce
0:45.2	our colleague and special guest today who's going to be joining us across the show?
0:50.4	Yes, we have a bonus guest and we're temporarily bumping her up to a special co-host guest today.
0:57.0	Kate Howells, who is our national coordinator for Canada and a card-carrying Canadian citizen I believe right?
1:04.0	Hi Kate.
1:05.0	Hi guys it's great to be on the show. Thank you for having me.
1:08.0	We're glad to have you.
1:09.0	We'll point out that Kate, she has at least two roles with the society.
1:12.0	Most of us have at least two roles with the society.
1:12.6	Most of us have at least two.
1:14.3	She is also the Global Community Outreach Manager
1:17.5	with responsibility for coordinating with
1:21.2	our vast network and growing network of volunteers around the world, right,
1:25.2	Kate?
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