Welcome to the December edition of the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. I'm your host

Mac Kaplan, the host of the regular show, the weekly edition of Planetary Radio,

back with this monthly special along with our very special regular participants.

My colleagues, Casey Dreyer, the director of space policy for the Planetary Society,

and calling in from DC inside the beltway,

Jason Callahan, our Space Policy Advisor,

also the composer of the theme that you just heard,

and you'll hear again if you stick around

to the end of the show.

And I think you should, because, because boy do we have a lot to talk

about welcome back guys hey Matt hey guys how you doing great and I was worried that

we wouldn't have enough to talk about that it would all be we don't know what's going on

well we still don't do we now it doesn't stop us from speculating

does it or anyone else we're in the parlor game part of the NASA transition now that we've had

a presidential election. No one knows what or who will lead NASA in the next few months here, but we've got some relatively informed

thoughts on this and we will give a lot of context too to some of the things you may

be seeing online.

Not only that, it just seems like in the last two or three days, and I'll say that we're recording this

on the 1st of December, Thursday the 1st, the Trump administration and Congress have obliged us.

They've made a few announcements that I think we're going to give us some things to talk about

over the next hour or so.

First of all, we need to acknowledge there is a president-elect.

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