The Lunar Era – Part 4: “After Apollo”

About this Episode

Part 4: “After Apollo” In this episode the focus shifts from competition to preservation. Space law expert Michelle Hanlon explores the legal realities of the Apollo landing sites and how norms, first-mover behavior, and the Artemis Accords will shape the Moon’s future. That legal reality is paired with Jim Remar of the Cosmosphere, who shows how close we have already come to losing the physical legacy of the Apollo era and why preservation still matters.

Part 5 will release at the end of January (maybe the beginning of February) and will feature my conversation with Casey Dreier from The Planetary Society. Make sure you've subscribed and followed the show so you don't miss future episodes.

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Episode Links:
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts- Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.

Check out the work that the team at For All Moonkind is doing. For All Moonkind

Learn about the Cosmosphere and upcoming events here. Cosmo.org

Michelle and I spoke about the new Space Law program at The University of Mississippi, I'll have to have her on again to talk about that since there wasn't time to include it in this episode. You can see her faculty page here.

Episode Music/Audio
Historical misison audio via NASA and Archive.org.
The PDF with the archival mission audio metadata is a great resource for helping find specific times and files.

Diotima
Vessel Five
Frank and Poet

These tracks are licensed via Blue Dot Sessions.