Planetary Radio • Sep 02, 2016
Space Policy Edition #4: Near Earth Asteroids—Why we go, how we find them, and maybe mine them
On This Episode
![Casey dreier tps mars](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_82_line/casey-dreier-tps-mars.jpg)
Casey Dreier
Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary Society
![Kaplan mat headshot 0114a print](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x1200_crop_center-center_82_line/kaplan-mat_headshot_0114a_print.jpg)
Mat Kaplan
Senior Communications Adviser and former Host of Planetary Radio for The Planetary Society
![Jason callahan](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x768_crop_center-center_60_line/jason-callahan.jpg)
Jason Callahan
Former Space Policy Advisor for The Planetary Society
In honor of OSIRIS-REx—NASA’s newest asteroid mission—we explore the policy and history of near-Earth Objects: why NASA explores them, how the government plans to find and defending the planet, and the how policy can keep up with ambitious plans to mine asteroids.
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Related Reading and References:
- Planetary Radio Talks With NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson
- Planetary Radio: Saving the Planet at the 2015 Planetary Defense Conference
- Lindley Johnson’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office Update
- Planetary Resources
- Deep Space Industries
- National Research Council Report: Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
- NASA Office of Inspector General: NASA’s Efforts to Identify Near-Earth Objects and Mitigate Hazards
- 2010 letter from the Office of Science and Technology Policy to Congress detailing federal coordination for NEO disaster preparedness
- 2016 FEMA-NASA Planetary Impact Emergency Response Working Group (PIERWG) planetary impact working group presentation