Space Policy Edition: Destination…Mars? Contradictions and Principles

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🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Senate just held a hearing on NASA's efforts to send humans to...Mars? A week later, the same committee advanced legislation to extend the life of the International Space Station to 2030, six years beyond the current end-date and two years beyond the current hardware safety ratings. Does that extension undermine efforts to get to Mars? What about the Moon? Casey and Jason also introduce The Planetary Society's new principles for human spaceflight, which provide a framework by which the organization will evaluate plans for human exploration. More resources to explore this month’s topics are http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-28.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is August of 2018 time for the space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.
0:14.8	Welcome back, I'll give you policy geeks out there.
0:17.6	This is Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio
0:20.1	for the Planetary Society, which is bringing you this monthly podcast, more about the society
0:26.0	in just a moment.
0:27.3	But first I want to introduce, as always, my colleagues, Casey Dreyer, the director of space
0:31.9	policy for the Planetary Society and his colleague
0:34.8	Jason Callahan, our Space Policy Advisor in Washington, D.C. Welcome back guys.
0:39.6	Happy to be here, as always.
0:41.2	Hey guys, how you doing?
0:42.3	Very well, and much more for us to talk about Happy to be here as always. Hey guys, how you doing?
0:42.6	Very well, and much more for us to talk about
0:45.3	that we never have a shortage.
0:47.2	And there have been some interesting happenings
0:50.1	there in the nation's capital in the last, even just in the last few days, which we'll be covering today.
0:56.7	Before we get to that, though, planetary.org slash membership.
1:01.4	If you enjoy this podcast, if you enjoy the weekly, the regular edition of
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