Guest : Frank Stratford, CEO of MarsDrive (www.marsdrive.com), was the guest for this Space Show program. We started out by having Frank update us as to the purpose and mission of MarsDrive, then we talked about the MarsDrive petition, especially the version placed on the Space Cynics website (please see http://spacecynic.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/peer-review-comes-to-the-spa… for more information). Frank was very direct in discussing the petition as well as its purpose, objectives, and results so far, plus MarsDrive's future plans for it. You will want to hear what he has to say about the petition, going to Mars, humans, robotics, and trips by the public and by the private sector. We also talked some about the lack of an official space program in Australia and I am sure many of you will be surprised by what he has to say about this matter. During the show, listeners asked him questions about the US space policy and the policy we know so far from our presidential candidates. While Frank is "down under," he was quite well abreast of our campaign issues around space, so you will want to hear his take on all this. Actually, as you will hear, Frank is a strong and articulate advocate of private space development for profit, understands the important of doing things in stages and by incremental steps, and even is willing to take second or third place to projects that may have a higher priority than Mars, but may also lead to a stronger path for humans to Mars. This was made clear when a listener asked him about his preference on an SSP project or a human mission to Mars. We covered many topics on this show related to Mars, space commerce, policy, the international Mars community and more. If you are going to ISDC 2008, MarsDrive will have a booth and there will be a MarsDrive presentation. Find the booth and listen to the talk. If you have questions or comments for Frank Stratford, you can email him at info@marsdrive.com. Please put Frank's name and The Space Show in your subject line.
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