Space Policy Edition: A Commercial Future for the Space Station?

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After announcing it intends to divest from the International Space Station in 2025, NASA quietly released a new report on its transition plans, laying out a series of principles that will set the future of U.S. astronauts in low-Earth orbit. Can a private entity really take over the space station? Where did this idea come from anyway? Will there be new commercial space stations in the near future, and will they serve NASA's needs? Also, the confirmation of Jim Bridenstine as NASA Administrator. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-25.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the space policy edition of Planetary Radio.
0:11.6	Welcome back to our monthly review of all the stuff that
0:15.8	really makes space exploration and space development possible. This is Matt
0:20.7	Kaplan. I am the host of the weekly planetary radio program and very happy to be joined once again by my colleagues
0:27.8	Casey dryer who is the director of space policy for the Planetary Society. Casey, hello?
0:33.0	Hey, Matt, Jason, and is this correct?
0:35.4	Happy two years anniversary of the show?
0:37.9	Absolutely correct.
0:39.2	Happy second anniversary to you as well.
0:41.6	Jason Callahan, Space Policy Advisor to the Planetary
0:45.1	Society. Hey guys, how you doing? I tell you it doesn't feel like two years at all
0:48.5	does it? It really doesn't. A lot longer? Not even close. We have some great stuff to talk about this month as we do
0:58.8	every month. Thank you to all of you who have been writing to tell us how much you enjoy the Space Policy
1:05.2	Edition.
1:06.2	As you can tell, comes to you the first Friday of each month over the last couple of years.
1:11.0	We're going to keep it up.
1:12.3	One of the ways to help us keep that up, keep this up, is to become
1:16.3	a member of the Planetary Society at planetary.org.
1:20.3	membership, but there are other ways to support what we're doing.
1:24.3	Casey, what's happening?
1:25.8	Well, there's two exciting things.
1:27.8	First of all, this is our annual fundraising for this program.
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