Looking back, looking forward with the Planetary Society All Stars this week on Planetary Radio.

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

solar system and beyond.

Happy New Year all.

The celebration continues at the Planetary Society with three of my colleagues.

I ask Senior Editor Emily Lochuwala, Digital Editor Jason Davis, and Director of Space Policy

Casey Dreyer, to join me for a review of 2017 and their predictions

of what to watch for in 2018. It's a nice long conversation followed by a

special edition of What's Up with Bruce Betts,

Bruce has his own highlights to talk about and a new space trivia contest of course.

Welcome everybody. I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me to do this before.

Emily, I will give you the credit because I was already thinking of talking to you,

Jason Davis and Casey Dreyer individually individually but it was such a good idea to just get everybody

together and we'll have a nice juicy conversation.

And no one says anything. Oh, radio host's worst nightmare.

Yeah, I blame this one on the host, let's say.

All in favor. Let's go into it and we'll begin with

2017 quite logically looking back at the year that was so the way we're going to

do this is we'll get to each of you and your top stories, top topics for 2017 and of course I encourage the other two of you to jump in with your additions to the discussion.

Emily, I think we can start with you.

What's the first thing you wanted to talk about as you look back at the year that was?

Well, I think it's pretty clear that the most significant event of last year was a bittersweet one.

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