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Space Café Radio - "What Washington Doesn't See" - Dr. Michael Gleason on Europe's Geopolitical Space Awakening
21 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 8:00 am.
Space Café Radio - "What Washington Doesn't See" - Dr. Michael Gleason on Europe's Geopolitical Space Awakening
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"I think the US in general doesn't pay much attention to European space." That's how Dr. Michael Gleason of the Aerospace Corporation opens - and it's exactly the blind spot this conversation sets out to expose. Recorded live on day two of the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Torsten Kriening sits down with the analyst whose latest paper, "Geopolitical Awakening: The European Union and Space," made a lot of Europeans uncomfortable - not because he got it wrong, but because an America...