Space Policy Edition: Divining Biden's Space Policy with Jeff Foust
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
A month before the U.S. election Joe Biden's campaign has yet to state its goals for space and NASA. We asked Jeff Foust, one of the best space reporters in the business, to help us piece together a working model of a potential Biden Administration space policy. We comb through the available evidence, combining insights from Biden's history in the Senate, his 8 years as vice president, and current activities in the Democratic House of Representatives and party platform to create a prediction of what might be the same, and what might differ from the Trump Administration's approach to NASA. Explore more here. https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/1002-2020-spe-jeff-foust
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the October 2020 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:19.6 | We are so glad to have you back. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio. Doesn't seem like it's been long, does it, Casey? Because it hasn't. I mean, after delaying the last one, we're back in fairly short order. |
| 0:34.1 | How lucky that we just get to talk more soon than we would have otherwise. |
| 0:39.8 | And that we get to have this conversation as the voting is already underway in the United States |
| 0:46.2 | to pick the next president and everything else that's happening at the federal level. |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome Casey. |
| 0:52.1 | Thanks Matt, as always, I'm happy to be on the show we need. federal level. Welcome, Casey. Thanks, Matt. |
| 0:53.0 | As always, I'm happy to be on the show we do. |
| 0:55.0 | That of course is Casey Dreyer, our senior space policy advisor at the Planetary Society, and our chief |
| 1:00.9 | advocate. |
| 1:02.3 | We will be meeting his guest. It is perfectly timed. |
| 1:06.8 | Casey, you have invited Jeff Faust, who is one of my heroes in our business. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, Jeff Faust is prolific, I think is fair to say, writer on Space News, literally, and for the magazine Space News, |
| 1:21.0 | and also covered space politics for a long time on his old website space |
| 1:25.1 | politics.com. He writes the first up newsletter for space news that's a daily |
| 1:30.2 | summary of all the things happening in space. |
| 1:32.9 | And I asked him on the show to help me kind of divine |
| 1:36.1 | and suss out Joe Biden's space policy |
| 1:39.4 | should he be elected for the next four years, |
| 1:42.0 | just to kind of compile all the various bits and |
| 1:44.8 | pieces of information we have because the campaign has at the time of this |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Planetary Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Planetary Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.