Talking with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The former Oklahoma congressman and Navy aviator stepped into the leadership role barely a year ago. Now he wants to see humans back on the Moon by 2024 as a vital stepping stone to Mars. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about this ambitious plan and much more. Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts continues the countdown to launch of LightSail 2 before he takes us across the heavens in What’s Up. You can learn more about this week’s guests and topics at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/0522-2019-2019-jim-bridenstine.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A conversation with the leader of NASA.
0:03.0	Jim Bridenstein joins us this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our
0:16.7	solar system and beyond.
0:18.8	I'm back from the last of my many trips in the last month.
0:22.2	They climaxed with last week's Humans to Mars Summit in
0:25.2	Washington, D.C. You'll hear the great material I gathered there in the coming weeks.
0:30.3	It was backstage at H2M that I met the man who has been NASA administrator since April of 2018.
0:38.0	James Frederick Bridenstein was an Oklahoma congressman when he decided to go for leadership of the world's foremost
0:45.0	space agency.
0:46.5	Now he is at the forefront of the latest plan to return humans to the moon and to do so by
0:52.2	2024.
0:54.0	As you'll hear, he views this as an essential step toward reaching Mars.
0:58.0	It has only been a couple of months since this ambitious goal was announced.
1:02.0	Plans are still being formulated and we only
1:04.2	know how much additional money the agency wants for the first year of its
1:08.0	development but it has a name Artemis goddess of the moon.
1:13.0	Choosing a female namesake was very important to Bridenstein.
1:16.8	First though, there were several other topics I wanted to cover in our interview, recorded on
1:21.2	the morning of Tuesday, May 21st, while the administrator was in the Washington
1:25.6	headquarters of NASA.
1:27.8	Administrator Bridenstein, it is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to Planetary Radio. Well, thank you, Matt.
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