Welcome back everyone and welcome to a brand new year of the space policy edition of

Planetary Radio. I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of planetary radio, joined again by the

chief advocate of the Planetary Society, Casey Dreyer, Casey, happy new year to you.

Happy New Year, Matt. Happy to be with you for 2020.

And technically, the end of the decade,

though obviously most people will consider this,

the start of a new decade.

Don't talk to me.

You're zero people, I know, but the significant digitist change is the 20-20s now.

So yeah, a happy time to be talking with you about space.

It's going to be an interesting decade ahead. So are you one of those who, like me, you get this little twinge when people say this is the,

we've just gone into a new decade when really it's a year away?

Yeah, I know. I go back and forth like conceptually I know it but also

it's way more convenient just to say hey the digit changed and let's year zero

that didn't happen.

That was 20 20 years ago.

So for rounding sake, I'm a decade man.

Well, however you feel about the calendar decade, we are now well into the fiscal year of 2020 and I

know that's something that you want to talk about once we get through our

initial housekeeping comments.

You knew it was coming.

We weren't going to let you escape from this, folks.

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