Space Policy Edition: The Soviet Moonshot (with Asif Siddiqi)

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 124 minutes

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The U.S. won the space race in July of 1969 with the success of Apollo 11. But was the Soviet Union even racing? How close were they to beating the United States to the Moon? Soviet space historian Dr. Asif Siddiqi discusses the other side of the space race as we kick off our multi-part series of interviews celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. Planetary Society Chief of Washington Operations, Brendan Curry, also joins the show to catch up on the latest news about the White House proposal to return to the Moon by 2024. More resources about this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/space-policy-edition-38.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.6	This is the space policy edition planetary radio. Welcome back to this monthly program that we bring you from the heart of Washington,
0:18.7	D.C., which is also the heart of space exploration in the United States and therefore largely around the
0:25.8	world. I'm at Kaplan the host of planetary radio. Very happy to be back with my colleague
0:32.2	Casey Dreyer, the chief advocate for the planetary society.
0:35.4	Welcome, Casey.
0:36.4	Hey Matt, and before we even go further, I want to say, happy third anniversary of the show.
0:41.8	We started three years ago, this month around this time.
0:45.3	Exactly right.
0:46.4	Yes, congratulations to you, to all of us,
0:50.0	and to all the policy wonks out there who have been enjoying this program with us now for all of that time. To help us celebrate, we have your close colleague Brendan Curry, the Chief of Washington Operations for the Planetary
1:04.9	Society.
1:05.9	Brendan, welcome back.
1:06.9	It's great to be back, Matt, and always good to be working with you and Casey.
1:11.3	Casey, a little tease up front here we have another
1:14.8	outstanding interview one that also will help us lead into this 50th anniversary
1:21.8	season for Apollo.
1:24.0	Specifically Apollo 11, which as we speak now
1:26.7	is barely a month and a half away,
1:29.6	the anniversary of the first moon landing.
1:31.5	We'll get back to that in a moment, but we also want to deliver
1:35.1	our usual message up front, which is that if you're listening to this, if you've come back
1:40.2	into the Space Policy Edition because you can't get enough of space or the policy
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