Hi everybody it's Matt don't worry the new SPE is just moments away but there is a lake

breaking development that could affect when we'll be able to make it available to

you it would have been of course the first Friday in February, February 2nd, but the guys

realized after we recorded that it looks like the budget request for NASA for the FY 2019 fiscal year 2019 will be announced on Monday the fifth the Monday following when we would normally do the show.

So right now we're going to hold off on doing the show until the second Friday.

That would be February 9th 2018. But stay tuned because as you know things do tend to slip a bit, especially

on the ice right now in DC. So who knows, we might be back to going on the second.

We'll alert you on the website, we'll tweet it out,

and I will certainly keep you up to date

on the weekly version of Planetary Radio,

as to when you can expect to hear the February edition of the Space Policy

Edition. The January edition starts now. This is the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.

Welcome back everybody.

I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio,

back with this monthly special edition of the show

where we talk all things policy and advocacy with two members of the space

policy and advocacy staff at the Planetary Society.

Casey Dreyer is with us again. He's the director of space policy. Casey, howdy?

Hey Matt, hey Jason, and happy new year to everybody listening. Happy New Year, yes. And Jay. Jason and

Jason,

Jason, Space Policy Advisor in the Beltway in Washington,

DC where pretty much everything we talk about every month is centered.

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