Space Policy Edition: Why lunar exploration must be of enduring national interest

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🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Scott Pace, the prior executive secretary of the National Space Council, discusses why Artemis is of strategic value to U.S. national interests — and why the Moon is unique as a destination to drive global space exploration.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this month's Space Policy Edition.
0:17.6	I am Casey Dreyer, the Chief of Space Policy here at the Planetary Society.
0:22.7	We have a great guest coming up this month.
0:25.7	We have Dr. Scott Pace, who was the executive secretary of the National Space Council under
0:30.6	the Trump administration and the current director of the Space Policy Institute at George
0:35.2	Washington University, a very, very deep thinker on space policy and influential member in
0:42.6	the recent history of particularly NASA's focus on the moon.
0:46.0	And he's here to really talk to us about that, our Artemis and the development of that and
0:49.4	how it's really aligned with his original visions and arguments for the national interest
0:55.8	perspective of why the moon is the place to go for human space flight rather than places
1:01.0	like Mars.
1:02.5	He'll be up here in just a few minutes, so stay tuned for that.
1:06.2	In the meantime, I have two topics I want to talk about before we get to Dr. Pace.
1:12.3	The first is of course NASA's budget, one of my perennial and annual interests as we go
1:17.6	through this normal cycle here in the United States.
1:20.5	And of course, something very near and dear to my heart, which is membership to the Planetary
1:25.4	Society.
1:26.4	Let me start with the second one first.
1:28.8	If you're listening to this, you probably already know about the Planetary Society.
1:32.9	If you remember, I just want to say first thank you and to just forgive the next 30 seconds,
1:37.4	but thank you for supporting us.
1:39.1	If you're not a member, please consider joining us.
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