Hello and welcome to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio, the monthly show

where we explore the politics and processes that enable space exploration.

I'm joined by my colleague, the director of government relations here at the Planetary Society,

Jack Curly.

Hey Jack.

Hey Casey, it's great to be on.

As always great to have you.

Jack this is another episode dedicated to a single space policy paper.

The first one that we did was really fun got got a lot of great response, so we're

going to be doing this on a regular basis every couple of episodes. And we're going to choose

from a list, and again I encourage our members to keep sending us paper ideas.

This month though, I reached out to Laura Delgado-Lopez.

She's a long-time space policy expert in Washington, D.C. currently at the Center for Strategic International Studies there.

And I raised, I gave her some options, and she actually proposed the paper we're going to talk

about today.

And this paper is called

Clearing the Fog, the gray zones of space governance

written by Dr. Jessica West and Jordan Miller.

Jack, this paper is kind of a departure for us. It's going to be much more focused on space

governance and immediate issues facing global, in a sense, peaceful operations of outer space,

identifying gaps that are there in terms of,

you know, identifying potential problems

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