Space Policy Edition: Lies, Damned Lies, and Space Data

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The space sector is data-rich but insight-poor. Jack Kuhr of Payload talks about how he turns raw numbers into real narratives.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the space Policy edition of Planetary Radio.
0:23.1	I'm Casey Dreyer, the chief of space policy here at the Planetary Society.
0:27.7	Welcome to this month.
0:29.4	I usually try to keep these episodes these days relatively independent of external events,
0:34.9	just to make them more, you know, listenable in the future.
0:38.0	But I just got back from our 2025 Day of Action.
0:42.6	This is early April when I'm recording this.
0:45.2	The Day of Action, for those of you who are unaware, is the Planetary Society's
0:49.9	big Congressional Visits Day to Washington, D.C.
0:53.1	And this year, obviously a lot going on in policy,
0:57.1	a lot of uncertainty, a lot of troubles potentially facing NASA and NASA science. We had 105 members
1:03.8	of the Planetary Society come from all over the country on their own dime. Most of them having
1:09.4	no direct connection to planetary science, to space
1:13.6	exploration, they just love it, right? They're just members of the public. They came to
1:18.6	Washington, D.C., and they advocated. We did hundreds of meetings in Congress advocating for space
1:23.1	science and the values behind exploration and discovery science and all the big things that we
1:28.9	care about here at the Planetary Society. Some of them are listeners of this podcast, and I just
1:35.2	will say it's always a pleasure and was a pleasure to meet so many motivated and passionate
1:41.1	individuals. It's really just a value to me personally, and it's just always
1:47.5	inspiring to me and my colleagues here at the Planetary Society to meet our members. Something else
1:53.6	I want to mention this week, first week of April here for Planetary Radio, the other show that we do,
2:00.0	the weekly show that this is an edition of.
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