Greetings all. Welcome back to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio with that great theme going in the background

by our own Jason Callahan, who will be hearing from again along with Casey Dreyer.

I'm going to, in fact, introduce them now. Casey Dreyer is the Director of Space Policy for the Planetary Society.

Welcome back, Casey, and happy new year.

Happy New Year, guys, and everyone listening.

I think this will be our first full year of Space Policy Edition

episodes 12 slated up coming down your way. I'm planning to make it through

December. Jason I hope you are too, happy new year to you as well.

Thank you very much after the events of 2016 I make no predictions but I hope to be here in

December. Oh that's a show for another day.

Jason is the Space Policy Advisor. Oh, that's a show for another day.

Jason is the space policy advisor to the Planetary Society,

based within the Beltway there in Washington, D.C.

And as promised this week, we're going to talk about, we're going to respond to some of the questions,

some of the requests for discussion topics that you folks have submitted.

We've got a little bit of business to get through

before that including an update on the transition to the new administration that is

now as we speak less than three weeks away from taking over the executive branch of the

United States of America. I'm going to thank those of you who are already

members of the society and others, some of whom are members, who took part in our end of year fundraising campaign.

I just checked, it's still open.

Would you like to support all the stuff that we do with the society. You can do it easily now at planetary.org slash

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