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Advocating for Planetary Science/Star Trek Meets Spacefarers

Air Date: 05/20/2013
Run Time: 30:45

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Guests:

• Casey Dreier, Advocacy and Outreach Coordinator, The Planetary Society

Topics: podcasts and videos, interview, Planetary Society, Planetary Society People, Planetary Radio, Planetary Society Political Advocacy, Space Policy, NASA Budget, Explaining Policy, human spaceflight, asteroids

Planetary Science funding from NASA is in trouble, so a delegation led by Bill Nye the Science Guy descended on Washington DC last week to sound the alarm. Planetary Society Advocacy chief Casey Dreier provides a report, and comments on the Society’s support for NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission.  First though, an audio treat as we hear the director and cast of Star Trek: Into Darkness meet up with real spacefarers. Emily Lakdawalla has an update on the two Mars rovers, while Bruce Betts goes where no man has gone before in a Trek-influenced What’s Up segment.

Related Links

• Casey Dreier's Blog:  NASA Robs Planetary Science
• Press Release: Planetary Society Announces Conditional Support of NASA's Asteroid Mission
• 2013 Parsec Awards Nomination Page
• Emily Lakdawalla's Blog: Opportunity and Curiosity Updates

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