Space Policy Edition: Space Policy Directive 2—This Time it's Commercial

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🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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President Trump just signed a new space policy directive targeting the regulations surrounding commercial spaceflight. Casey Dreier, Jason Davis and Mat Kaplan dive into the implications of the new directive and what it means for the relationship between government and space. They also break down all of the good news in the House's new funding bill for NASA, and highlight NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine's turnaround on climate change. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-26.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	That great theme music can only meet one thing. It's time for the monthly space policy edition of planetary radio hello everyone I'm Matt Kaplan the regular host of the weekly show
0:18.7	planetary radio that you can find all the time at planetary.org, but this one, that so many of you are just crazy about.
0:27.0	We're back with the Director of Space Policy for the Planetary Society, Casey Dreyer, welcome.
0:33.0	Hi Matt, as always, I am delighted to be here on our show.
0:36.6	And Jason Callahan, the policy advisor to the Planetary Society, living there within the Beltway in Washington DC and still able to
0:46.4	emerge periodically and speak to us with great gusto about what's going on there.
0:50.6	Hey Jason, hey guys how you doing It's good to see you again.
0:53.6	Despite his handicap of having to live in Washington, D.C.
0:56.9	Matt, he is able to speak with us with passion.
1:00.4	D.C. gets a bad rap sometimes.
1:02.0	It's actually a wonderful place to live.
1:03.4	Yeah, it's very nice.
1:04.8	I love it. And I'm going to come back to that because of course I was there just recently
1:09.6	with you guys, but we're going to come back to that because first we got to make our pitch.
1:14.4	Of course we would love to have you as a member of the Planetary Society by reaching us at
1:20.4	planetary.org membership but Casey there is something else going on right now as we speak that is also very important,
1:28.5	maybe even more important for the advocacy efforts, the space policy efforts by the planetary society.
1:34.5	No question more important in my completely objective independent viewpoint here.
1:39.8	We're doing our annual fundraising for this very program, this very program being not the show you're
1:44.1	listening to, but space policy and advocacy, the program that I run with Jason and our colleague
1:49.3	Matt Renninger in the DC area. We are independent. We don't have corporate money that allows us to do this. We don't work for companies or we don't benefit from the work that we do. We only want to see a greater presence in exploration in space science.
2:04.8	And we do that because members and individuals like you, you listening to this right now,
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