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Sep 2022
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Space Policy Edition: Mike Gold on Craft...

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Former NASA Associate Administrator Mike Gold shepherded the Artemis Accords, a set of bilateral agreements for collaboration in human space exploration. Casey Dreier spoke with him in Florida as we awaited the launch of Artemis 1. 
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