Space Policy Edition: T-minus Five Years and Counting

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Can NASA return astronauts to the Moon by 2024? Vice President Mike Pence shocked the space community by announcing this ambitious new goal just weeks after the Trump Administration proposed a half-billion dollar cut to the space agency. Is the Administration fed up with the mounting delays to the Space Launch System rocket? How seriously should we take this declaration? Is it even possible given budget cuts and political dysfunction? Brendan Curry, Chief of Washington Operations for The Planetary Society, joins the show to explore these questions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. This is the April 2019 episode of this
0:17.3	monthly series brought to you by the Planetary Society. I'm Matt Kaplan the host of Planetary Radio both the weekly show
0:25.3	and this monthly program which always features my colleague the chief
0:30.5	advocate for the Planetary Society Casey Dreyer.
0:33.4	Welcome, Casey.
0:34.4	Hey, Matt, always a pleasure to be talking with you about space policy.
0:37.9	You bet.
0:38.9	And we have a colleague, someone who has now been with the society for a little while but it is his first time on planetary radio.
0:47.0	Please introduce our guest.
0:48.0	Well, it's the new chief of Washington operations for the Planetary Society,
0:54.0	Brendan Curry, previously of the Space Foundation,
0:56.7	previously of working on Congress,
0:59.0	previously doing a lot of other things
1:00.8	in Washington, D.C.
1:02.0	Brendan, welcome to the show.
1:04.3	Hey guys, it's great to be here. It's an honor and a privilege.
1:07.5	Looking forward to working with you guys and again, like Casey, you said it's always cool to talk about space policy.
1:14.4	I can vouch for that.
1:16.4	Yeah, welcome Brendan and and your vast experience has been added to just in the last couple of weeks and is going to be central to a lot of what I understand we will be talking about today, Casey.
1:29.0	Before we get into that though, and there is a lot of really significant stuff to talk about.
1:35.0	Let's talk about the most important thing that we can say up front in any of these programs,
1:40.0	and that is support for the planetary society, which you can provide in the best way possible
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