Space Policy Edition: Is the Moon a Stepping-Stone or a Cornerstone for Mars? (with Laura Seward Forczyk)
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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A new bill from the House of Representatives threatens to upend NASA's Artemis program and refocus the space agency on sending humans to Mars by 2033. Space policy expert Laura Seward Forczyk joins the show to share her critiques of this proposed legislation and what it would mean for NASA's human spaceflight program. Learn more about this month’s topics through links on the episode page. https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/space-policy-edition-46.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the February 2020 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:20.0 | We are so glad to have you with us. |
| 0:22.0 | We being, well, me, Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio, and the chief advocate of the planetary |
| 0:29.1 | society, Casey Dreyer who is with us for this monthly deep dive into the policy decisions and |
| 0:37.9 | background that drive everything else that we talk about on planetary radio and everything we care about at the planetary |
| 0:44.8 | society. |
| 0:45.8 | Welcome Casey. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey Matt, always happy to be here. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, happy to have you and looking forward to not just my conversation with you, but to listening to the conversation |
| 0:55.0 | that you're going to have with your special guest this week actually it's |
| 0:59.1 | already in the can you want to tease that a little bit before we talk a little bit about between you and me about other stuff that's going on? |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, today we have Laura Seward Forsick who's a space policy specialist and expert who runs her own consulting company, |
| 1:14.1 | astrolitical. She's the author of a new book called The Rise of the Space Age |
| 1:17.9 | millennials and she has a background in planetary science. So quite a bit of |
| 1:21.9 | useful overlap for us. She's going to help us |
| 1:24.4 | break down a brand new bill that came out from the House of Representatives that |
| 1:29.0 | asserts kind of a very strong control over the future of NASA's human spaceflight direction, |
| 1:34.4 | away from the current administration plan of Artemis, and to more of a quick touch and go to |
| 1:39.6 | the moon and a real focus on to Mars. |
| 1:42.1 | So quite a bit going on since our last show. |
| 1:44.6 | And she's going to help us break down |
| 1:46.3 | her thoughts on that bill, |
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