Space Policy Edition: Lessons From the Moonshot That Never Was-With Mark Albrecht

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Thirty years ago, Dr. Mark Albrecht led the National Space Council when President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative, an ambitious effort to send humans to the Moon and then on to Mars. Political divisions and a budget-busting cost estimate grounded the effort before it ever got off the ground. A new NSC is attempting to implement a new lunar plan from the Trump Administration. Can the lessons of a failed moonshot help today's lunar ambitions succeed? More resources about this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/space-policy-edition-37.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the May Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. I'm Matt Kaplan the host of Planetary Radio
0:15.6	and I am sitting on a couch next to a lot of coffee at the Planetary Defense
0:21.6	Conference. Casey Dreyer is the chief advocate for the planetary society.
0:25.8	Welcome, Casey, how's the coffee?
0:27.8	It's free.
0:28.8	The best kind.
0:30.8	And plentiful.
0:31.8	Matt, I have to say, this is the first time I think we've ever done this show
0:36.0	literally physically next to each other as opposed to distance but connected through the internet.
0:40.0	I think you're right and what a place to do it in as well as we're on
0:43.8	location. We're at the hotel at the University of Maryland which is the
0:48.5	headquarters for the planetary defense conference and there won't be a break for a while so hopefully
0:54.4	we won't hear a lot of coffee cups clanking but if you do hear some noise in the
0:58.0	background we are literally in the break area for the planetary defense conference.
1:03.1	Speaking of planetary defense, Casey,
1:05.4	we probably could start there in a moment or two,
1:07.8	but first, our usual pitch.
1:10.4	Do you want to start?
1:11.4	Matt, you do it so well. I can never compete.
1:14.0	Yeah, thank you, sir.
1:16.0	Beyond the point that I think everyone knows what's coming at this point.
1:19.0	Well, I feel strongly about this.
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