The Planetary Society's Casey Dreier joins Jake to talk about ongoing affairs in space policy affecting Mars, from robotic to human spaceflight.

Despite a growing influence of private organizations in the space industry, government still holds a lot of power in the direction of exploration. Space policy is a messy, complicated and mysterious affair. The Planetary Society’s Casey Dreier, Director of Space Policy, joins Jake to talk about the current affairs of Mars exploration, from the robotic side to the human side.

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<li><a href="http://www.planetary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Planetary Society</a>
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<li><a href="https://secure.planetary.org/site/SPageNavigator/memberships.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Become a member</a></li>
<li><a href="http://planetarysociety.org/about/staff/casey-dreier.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Casey’s profile</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/CaseyDreier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Casey Dreier’s Twitter Account (@CaseyDreier)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreier/2017/0606-announcing-a-new-paper-on-nasas-robotic-mars-program.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Mars In Retrograde” – White Paper on the state of Robotic Exploration of Mars</a></li>
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WeMartians music is “RetroFuture”, “Electrodoodle” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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27 – The Policy of Mars (feat. Casey Dreier)

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