Space Policy Edition: How NASA Came to Be

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Happy 60th, NASA. In celebration of the space agency’s birthday, we do the audio equivalent of pulling out NASA’s baby book and explore its origin story. Though legislation creating the space agency developed in the wake of Sputnik, it was built upon a rapidly changing relationship of the government to fundamental research and development in the decade before. We follow the threads of what makes NASA NASA, as well as how, in its early years, NASA looked quite different than the agency we know today. We also discuss the current bill that partially funds the U.S. government and provides temporary funding for NASA and other agencies through December of 2018. More resources to explore this month’s topics are http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-30.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy 60th birthday, NASA. This is the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. Welcome back everybody. I'm
0:15.6	Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio each week from Planetaryorg, the Planetary
0:21.7	Society. Very happy to once again Planetary. the Space Policy for the Planetary Society and Jason Callahan, the Space Policy
0:35.4	Advisor to the Society.
0:37.6	Hello guys and happy anniversary.
0:40.1	I was just thinking about this.
0:41.2	How many federal agencies do we celebrate the birthday of
0:46.3	Have we done this with health and human services recently? I don't I don't think so
0:50.7	Maybe the park sir. Maybe the park yeah sir. Maybe the park.
0:53.0	Yeah.
0:54.0	It is something we're celebrating and it is our major topic for this week's show talking about
1:01.6	how NASA came to be. I'm very glad that we have,
1:05.3	Jason, you, I think it's safe to call you an expert in this area. I don't know if I
1:09.9	go that far, but yeah, very interested tourist I suppose I've been certainly
1:15.1	looking at this stuff for a very very long time I'll give you that.
1:17.5	Passionately interested and I only regret that we will have only the time that we usually spend generous as it may seem to talk about this
1:26.8	when I'm sure that we could divide this discussion up into a little subcategories and you could spend an hour on each one.
1:33.6	I actually think that's a really limiting factor of time there.
1:37.4	I could go on for days on this topic, I think.
1:41.1	Yeah.
1:42.1	Matt, what you're describing is, I believe, a course,
1:44.0	like a college level of course,
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