Igniting Discovery, this week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah al-Ahmad of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Last week, we shared the stories of space advocates who traveled to Washington, D.C. USA to fight for NASA science funding during our annual Day of Action.

This week we're bringing you part two, because this year, for the very first time,

we followed up our day of action with something entirely new,

an event called Igniting Discovery, how NASA funding advances American science.

It was a showcase of the very science that we were fighting to protect.

This week I'll speak with Jack Corelli, Director of Government Relations at the Planetary Society about how that event came together.

You'll also hear from first-time advocate Juliana Charlene Colchinski, whose passion for space traces back to her grandfather's dreams.

Megan McKeown, who's the director of government affairs at the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities opens the event.

Then we hear from some of the exhibitors themselves, the scientists and the researchers.

Blake Schurz, who's a virtual reality specialist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,

Kirby Runyon, planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute,

Christine McCarthy, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Dority Earth Observatory.

Brent McBride, a research scientist at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County.

Lillianna Delgado, a PhD student in biomechanics at the University of Nebraska, Omaha,

and science communicator Sarah Treadwell, also known as Space Case Sarah.

At the end of the event, I bumped into Planetary Society member and advocate Ari Goslin,

who reflected on what it means to finally celebrate the science itself.

And of course, we'll close out with Bruce Betts, our chief scientist, who joins us for

what's up.

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