Welcome back to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. It's Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio, and this special podcast that comes to you every month, a little bit later than intended this month, normally the first Friday of each month, but we really

had technical difficulties. Those appear to have been solved and so we are glad to get to

you just a few days later and when I say we I mean my colleagues Jason Callahan and Casey

Dreyer. Jason Callahan how are you? I'm doing very well Matt.

I hear your voice again. Jason our Space policy advisor residing there within the beltway in Washington, D.C.

And Casey Dreyer, the Director of Space Policy for the Planetary Society.

Hi, Casey.

Gentlemen, nice to be here again.

Glad to have you both.

We can jump into it right after the commercial.

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