Space Policy Edition Special: The 2019 President’s Budget Request Unveiled

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🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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As promised, Casey Dreier and Jason Callahan are back with a special review of the just-released FY 2019 President’s Budget Request (PBR) for NASA. It contains good news, bad news and odd news. What is likely to stand? What will Congress ignore, going its own way? NASA’s new lunar ambitions, Mars Sample Return, WFIRST and more hang in the balance. Let the debate begin.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special version of the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.
0:14.0	I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of the show.
0:16.0	We told you that we would come back when Casey Dreyer and Jason Callahan were ready to take us through the budget proposal that has now
0:26.1	been issued by the Trump administration and so here we are halfway between
0:31.8	the normal release times our dates of our show which of course is
0:35.9	usually the first Friday of each month but we just couldn't wait to get back to you so
0:40.9	Casey Dreyer the director of space policy for the Planetary Society, is on the line with us.
0:46.5	Hello Casey. Hey Matt, happy to be here. And Jason Callahan, our space policy advisor there within the beltway in Washington, D.C.
0:54.6	Jason, welcome back to you as well.
0:56.1	Hello, guys, how are you doing? It's good to be back.
0:58.0	We will, because it's the right thing to do, before we get into talking about the budget, remind you
1:04.7	that this is a service provided by the Planetary Society and really if you want to
1:09.9	get down to it provided by our tens of thousands of members for all of them but also for the
1:16.6	rest of you who are not members. If you listen to public radio you hear people talk
1:21.1	about this all the time.
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1:49.7	Edition and of course the Weekly Show, Planetary Radio that we are have been bringing you for
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