Ten Years in Space, the Dawn Mission, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society,

with more of a human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. Dawn Mission Director and Chief Engineer Mark

Raymond is back to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the only spacecraft that has

orbited two solar system destinations. Bill Nye has also returned, sort of.

I talked with him on the eve of his departure from Australia, where he delivered

a keynote presentation at the International Astronautical Congress. And we've got more space

art to give away on this week's What's Up segment with Bruce Betts.

Last week was a big one for us, Space Geek's it brought the 60th anniversary of Sputnik 1 and a meeting in Washington DC that my colleague Casey

Dreyer could not miss. Casey great to get you on the regular edition of the

show and we will write up front let everybody know make sure they know that the

October edition of the Space Policy Edition is out and ready for people to listen to it

has this great interview that you did with Michael Neufeld of the Smithsonian

a terrific conversation about the V2 rocket but we had to record it basically what a couple of days before something very important

happened in Washington DC. Tell us about this meeting of the National Space Council.

Well as you said it was the first meeting of the National Space Council. Well, as you said, it was the first meeting of the National Space Council.

That is the executive branch reconstituted this special group which consists of the heads and

leaders and cabinet members of various agencies that all have an

interest in space. It's led by the vice president and the executive secretary

of Scott Pace, who is the director of the Space Policy Institute,

long time very well respected space policy mind.

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