Laura Delgado Lopez from the Harris Corporation joins us to talk about the growing number of countries getting into the space business, particularly in Latin America. Laura previously spent a combined 5 years at Secure World Foundation and earlier at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Casey, Jason, and Mat also take stock of SpaceX's plans to send humans around the Moon in 2018, and how the newly-announced Trump budget cuts could hurt NASA. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2017/space-policy-edition-10.html
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