Welcome Policy Wanks. This is the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio, welcoming you for our 13th episode, the beginning

of our second year together, or June of 2017, and we are very happy to have you back with us. This is Matt Kaplan, host to planetary radio.

Join once again by the Director of Space Policy for the Planetary Society, Casey Dreyer. Casey, welcome.

Hey Matt, happy to join you from the beautiful, expansive, luxuriously

furnished offices of Planetary Society, DC,

here in Jason Callahan's house. Very nice to be here. And Jason

Callahan is with us as well, the Space Policy Advisor to the Planetary Society.

Hey Jason, thanks for turning your place not just into one,

but two studios this month.

You guys are very, very welcome, and yes, Casey, I agree with you,

it is quite luxurious.

It's a real work into it, yes.

All right, so Casey, let's establish up front that you're in DC not just for the weather and

Jason's smiling face face but because there's

there's business to do. As always I make it out here probably every six weeks or

so fortunately I have a lot of help in the DC area with what Jason does and of course our new

colleague met Renninger who is not far actually from where we're recording

this right now and they're the ones really doing the work every day here in DC and I get to pop in every six weeks or so and we do some meetings

We check in on some areas and issues that we're working on we brainstorm together

This time we get a little bonus. It's a board meeting coming up for the planetary society,

so I've got a full board to brief on the work that we've done, the great fundraising that we

had this year for the program and yeah otherwise enjoy the beautiful

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