FUTURE OF SPACE POLITICS (The Planetary Society), Mar 24, 2025, DC, 7:00-8:30 pm ET

Update, March 23: The updated agenda indicates Nancy Chabot, JHUAPL’s Chief Scientist, will participate instead of Bobby Braun.  Current information and list of participants is on the event’s website.

The event is a live taping of the society’s podcast, Planetary Radio. Information on how to listen to Planetary Radio is on the society’s website.

Original Entry: The Planetary Society will hold an event on March 24, 2025 from 7:00-8:30 pm ET at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center Theater, 555 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC.

The topic is “Future of Space Politics.”

Among the speakers are Rep. George Whitesides (D-CA), Vice Ranking Member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee (and former NASA Chief of Staff and former CEO of Virgin Galactic), and Bobby Braun, head of the Space Exploration Sector at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

More information is on the event’s website, which says:

Join hosts Sarah Al-Ahmed and Casey Dreier in a special live taping of Planetary Radio in the nation’s capital. In this special event, following immediately after The Planetary Society’s Day of Action, we will explore the future of space politics under new congressional and White House leadership.

With NASA in a geopolitical struggle to return humans to the Moon, increasing influence from commercial space companies, potential budget cuts, and new committee leadership, the future of space exploration is at a pivotal moment. We will explore the changing dynamics of national politics, the composition of elected officials overseeing NASA, and how a rapidly growing new industry could reshape the incentives that have driven the politics of the U.S. space agency since the end of Apollo.