Artemis is often compared to Apollo. But how do they actually stack up? Planetary Society Chief of Space Policy Casey Dreier unpacks how funding, workforce, and robotic lunar exploration compare between NASA’s two lunar exploration programs. Pictured: A chart comparing workforce between Apollo and Artemis. Image credit: The Planetary Society.
Artemis II is about more than getting four humans to the Moon and back. This week on Planetary Radio, hear from Steve Platts, chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research, about the suite of human health experiments on this mission. Plus, Casey Dreier joins the show to explain all the new initiatives that NASA announced this week.
Hear even more from Casey Dreier on PBS News Hour. Our space policy and advocacy expert recently joined PBS News science correspondent Miles O’Brien and retired astronaut and engineer Leroy Chiao to discuss the Artemis program and NASA’s science goals.
New in the Planetary Society Book Club: Dispersal and a pastoral. On Wednesday, April 1, Planetary Society members can join a live virtual Q&A with award-winning poet and author Diane Ackerman, whose book “The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral” brings together poems devoted to the worlds of our Solar System. If you missed the February book club meeting, you can listen to the interview with astrobiologist Caleb Scharf in the latest Planetary Radio: Book Club Edition, where he discusses dispersal — the idea that life and humanity will inevitably expand across our solar neighborhood.