Welcome to the November 2017 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio are 18th of these monthly specials all about space policy the stuff that really matters when you want to explore space the Cosmos. I'm at Kaplan the host of

planetary radio and I am joined once again by the Director of Space Policy for

the Planetary Society. Casey,

Hi Casey.

Gentlemen, good to be here.

Jason Callahan is right there at Ground Zero for Space Policy within the Beltway.

Jason is our Space Policy Advisor at the Planetary Society. Welcome to you as well,

Jason. Hey guys, good to hear from you again. I'm going to begin by congratulating you guys on

what appeared to be a swell get-together there right at the Capitol.

It was swell, Matt. Thanks. We hosted, I was just in DC last week,

we hosted an event to really celebrate the end of the Cassini mission.

There really hadn't been any real formal acknowledgement of that, you know, from NASA on the

hill, so we said, hey, let's get some people together.

Let's get partners like Lockheed Martin and Boeing and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Let's all take a moment, acknowledge Kacini, but then let's look ahead to say what else is out there in the outer planets and how can we get there?

So we weren't just looking at spacecraft, we were looking at space telescopes, we were looking

at potential missions to the ice giants of Uranus and Neptune.

It was a great crowd, We wanted to get scientists in face-to-face

meetings with legislators and their staff to talk about all the incredible science that

could you know really lies ahead of us and we had Dr. Alan Stofin, the former chief scientist of NASA,

there to address the crowd.

Four members of Congress, about 150 staff.

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