Greetings Space Advocates, this is the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio coming to, well, okay, one week late, but still here in October to review all that is happening

within the Beltway in Washington DC and elsewhere that affects how we will

explore and do other things in space.

That's why we get together each month with this special edition of the show.

I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Planetary Radio welcoming you back and also welcoming back a couple of my colleagues.

Casey Dreyer, our chief advocate, is here as he is for all of these programs right from the start.

Casey, good to talk with you.

Oh, as always, Matt, five weeks since the last episode of Space Policy Edition.

I think not that much has happened, so I think

Well to help us get through that time

Well to help us get through that tiny amount of new developments

that is Brendan Curry, our chief of Washington operations.

Brendan, who is actually based there within the Beltway.

Brendan, welcome back.

Fellows, it's great to be back with you.

Happy to do it and looking forward to a good conversation with everybody.

Casey, somehow I suspect that we are going to have plenty to talk about, largely because you've laid it out, the two of you have laid it out.

It actually has been a pretty busy five weeks, but before we get to that,

let's start with encouraging anybody out there who has still not taken the plunge and become a member of the planetary society.

Why don't you visit us at planetary.org slash membership. Check out the benefits.

The biggest benefit of all being what these two guys and my other colleagues at the society

do to keep us in the game in space exploration to stay on top of things in DC and help drive the things that are being talked about in DC that are within the mission, the agenda of the planetary society, an agenda that we hope you share.

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