Space Policy Edition: The Moon-to-Mars Strategy, with Dr. Scott Pace
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
How spacefaring nations prioritize funding can be just as important, if not more so, than the capabilities of the commercial sector, says Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar, President and CEO of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration. She joins the show to talk how these complement each other, and why the SLS and Orion programs deserve support along with work by companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin. Mat and Casey also catch up on the dizzying amount of space news in July, including important progress on NASA’s budget from the U.S. House of Representatives. Explore more here. https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0911-2020-spe-scott-pace
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the September 2020 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. |
| 0:19.8 | We are so glad that you are back with us. |
| 0:22.2 | Apologies for the one week delay, but you're going to hear in moments why that was so well |
| 0:28.5 | justified. |
| 0:30.1 | As I introduce my partner, my colleague Casey Dreyer, the chief space advocate for the Planetary |
| 0:38.0 | Society and our senior space policy advisor, Casey, welcome back. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey, Matt. That was one heck of a conversation. Well worth |
| 0:46.8 | waiting an extra week for, who is your guest this week? My guest this week was the executive Secretary of the National Space Council, Dr Scott Pace. |
| 0:57.0 | The National Space Council being, of course, the High-Level Government Intergovernmental Council chaired by the vice president with the attempt to set |
| 1:06.5 | whole of government policy for space and really make space this integrated policy issue not just at NASA but through |
| 1:15.8 | national defense through Department of Transportation, Commerce, Energy |
| 1:19.4 | it's it's made up of basically a bunch of department heads of the US federal government. |
| 1:23.7 | So he's the guy who runs that council on a day-to-day level. |
| 1:28.4 | He was the head of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University where he's taking leave right now. |
| 1:35.2 | Very smart, very insightful mind on Space Policy. |
| 1:41.2 | I'd say one of the best people on space policy |
| 1:44.2 | that we have in the United States. |
| 1:45.8 | We have a great conversation really about this new strategy document |
| 1:50.6 | that was released by the National Space Council in July that I encourage you to read |
| 1:54.7 | called a new era for deep space exploration and development which really again |
| 1:59.0 | unifies all of the work that we've been seeing out of the National Space Council, all of the space policy |
| 2:04.7 | directives, the SPDs as he calls them, all of the attempts to kind of unify and coherently |
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