Space Policy Edition: Did NASA Ace its Midterms? With Special Guest Louise Prockter

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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We talk with planetary scientist and Lunar and Planetary Institute Director Louise Prockter, who co-led creation of a new report evaluating the performance of NASA's planetary science division. This comes five years after the release of the influential decadal survey. Given the massive budget cuts over the past few years, how did NASA do? Where do these reports come from and who puts them together? Why are they important? All will be answered in this month’s SPE! We also look into the report-within-a-report on the status of the robotic Mars Exploration Program, and find some recommendations that appear to have been inspired by a 2017 Planetary Society report. More resources to explore this month’s topics are http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-29.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio for September of 2018. I'm Matt Kaplan the host of
0:16.4	planetary radio joined once again by the Director of Space Policy for the
0:20.8	Planetary Society Casey Dreyer. hi Casey. Hey guys, welcome to the final
0:25.4	month of the 2018 fiscal year. It's exciting. Oh yes. We'll talk more about that,
0:30.4	the federal fiscal year at least. We'll talk more about that in a moment with
0:34.0	Jason Callahan, the Space Policy Advisor to the Planetary Society. Welcome to you, Jason.
0:39.4	Hey guys, how you doing? Excellent. Good to be talking to you again.
0:43.5	Has it been a month?
0:44.5	Actually, it's been more than a month.
0:47.4	And there is a lot to talk about.
0:48.6	And Casey, you have a long and marvelous conversation in store for us that people should definitely stick around
0:56.2	for. We'll be getting to that in a very few minutes. Up front though, I know you've got a couple
1:01.6	of announcements, but even before that, I want to get in our usual plug.
1:07.0	For anybody who's listening to this, maybe you've just discovered the Space Policy Edition,
1:11.5	maybe you've heard us right from the start. Maybe you are a regular
1:15.7	on the weekly edition of Planetary Radio, but if you're not a member of the Planetary Society, then you're not really fully engaged.
1:25.3	You're not really a part of helping this program happen, helping all a Planetary Radio,
1:30.6	helping the Planetary Society to do everything it does including the great work
1:35.8	by Casey and Jason.
1:37.3	You may think that their lives exist just so that they can come on and talk with me once a
1:42.1	month. No, they are come on and talk with me once a month.
1:42.6	No, they are very busy in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere,
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