Welcome everyone to our monthly Space Policy Edition that Planetary Radio.

I'm really glad that you've joined us.

I'm Sarah Alahmed, the new host of Planetary Radio.

And as many of you know, Matt Kaplan, our former host and the creator of Planetary Radio,

has retired from the show and moved on to a new role as Senior Communications Advisor here at the Planetary Society.

We're all going to miss him a lot, but that does not mean that our in-depth Space Policy Analysis is going to stop anytime soon.

I'm here with Casey Dreyer. He is our Chief of Space Policy at the Planetary Society.

Thanks for letting me join you on my first episode of Space Policy Edition, Casey.

Oh, Sarah, the pleasure is all mine. I'm excited to have you here. Welcome to the world, the exciting,

heady, and endlessly fascinating world of Space Policy. I'm really glad to see you.

I listened to your first show, I should say earlier this week. Congratulations, it sounded great.

Thank you.

Really happy to have you here.

This is going to be a learning process for me. I love space exploration, and I am aware of what's going on in politics,

but I'm really excited to delve more into this world of Space Advocacy, and I think this will help out a lot.

Yeah, I might be a bit biased, but I think it's truly one of the most interesting things to study and explore.

It tells you, well, I always think it's like physics, right? You have a physics background, I have physics background.

It's like you have a fascination with the rules and the systems behind the way the world works,

why the world is the way it is. And policy is kind of the reason behind the things that we see in Space.

It's the politics, is the finding out the rules and the patterns and the laws that drive the outputs that we see at a fundamental level.

And so it's just really fascinating to see the why behind the where, when we're going.

Right, and once you understand the why, you can really use that to get things done, which is why I feel like our Space Policy kind of advocacy branch of what we do is one of the most powerful things that we do here at the Planetary Society.

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