201 - Bad Ass, But Also Bad (with Casey Dreier and Eric Berger)

Anthony is joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about the NASA 2026 budget proposal, the Jared Isaacman saga, and all the space policy storylines you could imagine.

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• NASA's disastrous 2026 budget proposal in… | The Planetary Society
• The Space Review: How NASA’s proposed budget cuts are felt across the Atlantic
• The Space Review: NASA’s 2026 budget in brief: Unprecedented, unstrategic, and wasteful
• The Planetary Society’s NASA Data Dashboards
• Isaacman’s bold plan for NASA: Nuclear ships, seven-crew Dragons, accelerated Artemis - Ars Technica
• The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail - SpaceNews
• SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas - Ars Technica
• She was a Disney star with platinum records, but Bridgit Mendler gave it up to change the world - Ars Technica

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