About this episode

The episode discusses NASA's lunar plans, espionage in Florida, and features interviews with experts and journalists.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we spoke about NASA’s new plans to build a lunar space base and more with Don Platt, the director of Spaceport Education Center at Florida Tech and Adrienne Dove, Planetary Scientist and Chair of Physics at University of Central Florida (00:00). Then, former astronaut Chris Hadfield joined us to talk about the Artemis II launch and mission (14:26). Plus, we spoke with journalist Adam Ciralsky about his reporting for Vanity Fair about Florida’s hotbed of espionage (22:34). And later, we hear from law-abiding migrants who were deported (37:34) and we look at the results from this week’s special elections (45:54).

People in this episode

Guests: Don Platt, Adrienne Dove, Chris Hadfield, Adam Ciralsky

Topics covered

• NASA
• space exploration
• espionage
• Artemis II
• Florida politics
• migrant issues
• special elections

Keywords

• NASA
• lunar base
• Artemis II
• espionage
• Florida elections
• migrants
• space exploration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spaceport Education Center, Florida Tech, University of Central Florida, Vanity Fair

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