Former Congressman and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine joins me to talk space policy, then and now: CLPS, Commercial Space Stations, Artemis, international partnerships, and more.

This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 32 executive producers—Stealth Julian, Kris, Heiko, Pat, Jan, Warren, Josh from Impulse, Ryan, Lee, Joel, David, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Matt, Pat from KC, Will and Lars from Agile, Joonas, Donald, Bob, Frank, Joakim (Jo-Kim), Steve, Theo and Violet, Better Every Day Studios, Fred, Russell, The Astrogators at SEE, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters.

Topics

• Home | The Artemis Group
• Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon - NASA
• Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 lands on the moon - SpaceNews
• Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace
• Falcon 9 launches second Intuitive Machines lunar lander - SpaceNews
• House Committee Backs Moon-to-Mars, But Changes May Be Needed – SpacePolicyOnline.com

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