Space Policy Edition: NASA's 2021 Budget Request Brings Billions
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It's officially budget season! NASA's fiscal year 2021 budget request is out, and it proposes billions of dollars of new funding for Project Artemis. But not every program is so lucky: the WFIRST space telescope, two Earth Science missions, two Mars missions, and NASA's STEM engagement program are slated for cancellation. Why is Artemis growing and science shrinking? Will Congress let those cuts happen? The Society's Chief of D.C. Operations, Brendan Curry, joins Casey Dreier and Mat Kaplan to break down the details and political headwinds facing NASA funding in the coming year. Learn more about this month’s topics through links on the show page. https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/space-policy-edition-47.html
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to the March 2020 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:20.0 | We are thrilled to be back with you again. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm at Kaplan the host of planetary radio joined as always by our chief advocate Casey dryer and also this time by Brendan curry Brendan, welcome to the show. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey Matt, it's great to be back, fellas. |
| 0:36.0 | Very good to have you. |
| 0:38.0 | We have lots to talk about. |
| 0:39.0 | A lot of it will revolve around the budget that is coming together, not for 2020, but for 2021. |
| 0:47.6 | I know that you guys have a lot to say about that, and we'll have some other news along |
| 0:52.2 | the way, no doubt. I also want to congratulate |
| 0:55.8 | both of you on a tremendously successful day of action and Brenda and I neglected |
| 1:00.7 | to say that you are our Chief of Washington operations and there you are |
| 1:04.7 | based right in the beltway in Washington DC and so this is near and dear to you. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah it was a great day of action. Casey did a |
| 1:15.2 | Herculean task of putting all of it together and we had a great turnout. We had more |
| 1:21.4 | people than we had last year come from all over the country and we just had a great day. We started it off with briefings at NASA headquarters and then our intrepid members walk the hill and met with their elected |
| 1:34.9 | representatives and their staffers and spoke about what the society cares |
| 1:39.9 | about and our support for space exploration. |
| 1:43.4 | Casey, you had a good time. |
| 1:45.2 | I did. |
| 1:46.2 | I mean it's always fundamentally for me, I take a very selfish perspective and I come out of that |
| 1:51.8 | event just so invigorated and energized after meeting just our incredible |
| 1:56.7 | members of the planetary society who selflessly dropped hundreds if not thousands of dollars |
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