Space Policy Edition: The motives behind NASA's billions — Jean Toal Eisen on how Congress funds the final frontier
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Show Notes
For over a decade, Jean Toal Eisen drafted legislation directing billions of dollars to NASA as senior staff on the Senate Appropriations Committee. She joins the show to unveil the crucial roles played by committee staff like herself, how decisions and priorities are made behind closed doors, and the motivations and drivers of the people who control the fates of billions of dollars of taxpayer funding for the U.S. space program.
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