Hello again everyone and welcome to this monthly Space Policy edition of Planetary Radio.

Here we are in June of 2022.

I'm Matt Kaplan, the weekly host of Planetary Radio, joined once again by our Chief Advocate,

the Senior Space Policy Advisor for the Planetary Society, Casey Dreyer, who I am sorry to

say you're a little bit under the weather, huh?

Hey Matt, yes, I'm sure you can hear it in my voice.

My body is too busy making billions of copies of little virus particles.

I'm sure you can all guess which one.

So it's sorry in advance if I'm setting a little horse today.

It sounds worse than it is, I'm overall fine, but we'll get through this and I'll be my

back to my smooth velvety baritone next month.

And I can say up front that having just heard you conduct this great conversation with

your guests this week who happens to be Bethany Elman of Caltech, the president of the

Planetary Society, you definitely held your own.

I don't think you need to worry about how well your mind was working, even if your voice

is a little off.

It's always good to have a gut check on that, it's hard to objectively measure that internally.

Well, it won't help Casey get over the virus, but it certainly will make us all feel better

if those of you listening to this who are not yet members of a Planetary Society, it's

kind of like clapping your hands for Tinkerbell.

This is our equivalent to that, go to planetary.org slash join and Casey will, I'm sure, but just

make a miraculous recovery in the time that we're talking here when you become a member of

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