Welcome to another edition of Planetary Radio Extra, this time talking with Casey Dreyer, the director of

Space Policy for the Planetary Society and the Society's Space Policy Advisor Jason Callahan, who is based in Washington, D.C.

Actually, we're talking to them via Skype.

They're both in Washington.

It's just a Casey's in Washington state, and Jason is in Washington, D.C. Hello, guys, welcome back. of 2017 budget process is now officially underway.

Casey, this is something that you and I talked about on the planetary radio episode

for the week of February 15th, which anybody can find at planetary.org

slash radio, but that was just one of our little

introductory teaser segments, and we mentioned during that segment

that we would be expanding on that in a longer conversation.

And that's this conversation, of course.

But let's go back to the basics.

What has kicked off this process?

What has gotten things started, Casey?

The core of budget season begins with the President's budget request,

or as hipsters call it PBR, and the, you know, it feels like we just talked about this right we had an

extended interview just a couple months ago because we were talking about the

2016 budget which just wrapped up in December.

Usually it doesn't go that long,

though in recent years it has,

and so we're supposed to have a little bit more

of a break than we do here at the Planetary Society

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