Buzz Aldrin and others at the Humans to Mars Summit this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of a human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. We'll head back to that annual gathering of Martians for

some of the conversations I had with its amazing attendees, including the man who

walked on the moon with Neil Armstrong.

We'll talk to Buzz about his real legacy.

Bill Nye is back to wonder at the new images and science from Jupiter brought to us by the

Juno spacecraft, and Bruce Betts will be at his most villainous as he presents the night sky. We begin with the Planetary

Society's director of space policy, Casey Dreyer. Casey, great to catch you

just before you leave for Washington DC and business back there. We're going to have much to

talk about on the upcoming space policy edition but just to give us an overview

now this budget is out from the White House. That's true. This is the annual President's budget request.

It is the initial starting conditions for the year-long process,

the kind of this interplay between Congress and the White House to finally produce an actual budget

for the United States.

We are a few months behind in this process because of the new administration coming in, putting

their mark on the work of the budget and that was what was

released last week. So again I'm saying this is a proposal a lot because there's

generally some pretty bad news in this budget for a lot of different sciences across the government.

Cuts by up to a third, for example, is a very, very big cuts that are proposed.

NASA, fortunately, is spared the vast majority of these cuts.

It would see a roughly 3% cut from 2017.

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