Space Policy Edition: Space Force! With Special Guest Brian Weeden

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🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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The President recently ordered the creation of Space Force—but what does that mean? What are the implications for militarization of space? National security expert Dr. Brian Weeden joins the show to explain the announcement. Weeden also breaks down Space Policy Directive #3, which directs the Department of Commerce to begin tracking space debris and other potential dangers to spacecraft in Earth orbit. Casey, Jason and Mat take a detour to discuss the James Webb Space Telescope's latest breach, which delays the launch until March of 2021. More resources to explore this month’s topics are athttp://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-27.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Young people from all over the globe are joining up to fight for the future.
0:12.0	I'm doing my part.
0:14.0	I'm doing my part.
0:16.0	They're doing their part.
0:18.0	Are you?
0:19.0	Join the mobile infantry and save the world.
0:21.0	Service guarantees citizenship.
0:26.0	That's right, Service guarantees citizenship.
0:29.0	That's Starship Troopers, not Space Force. but who knows where we might end up with that kind of stuff.
0:36.4	Starship Troopers, the classic film of great irony based on that Robert Heinlein book of many years ago. Welcome back everybody. This is
0:44.8	Matt Kaplan, host of planetary radio, with the monthly Space Policy Edition. And that means, of course,
0:51.3	that I am joined by Casey Dreyer, the Director of Space Policy for the Planetary Society and Jason Callahan, the Space Policy Advisor to the Society, Jason talking to us from his home there within the beltway.
1:04.0	Gentlemen, welcome back.
1:05.4	Always a pleasure.
1:06.6	Hey guys, good to hear from you again.
1:08.2	And I just want to point out the level of in-depth policy discussion was basically summarized by the opening.
1:14.6	So that is about a deep difference in the space force.
1:17.3	We have a whole interview with Space Force today.
1:19.0	We have a special guest.
1:20.2	I just interviewed Dr Brian Wheaton from the Secure World Foundation, a PhD in Public Policy
1:26.0	and Administration, a lot of national security space experience.
1:30.6	We're going to go into very much depth about Space Force, the announcement, what it means, what may be happening.
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