Welcome to the fourth anniversary plus one show of Planetary Radio's Space Policy Edition.

I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Planetary Radio and the co-host of Space

Policy Edition with the Planetary Society's chief advocate and our senior space policy advisor Casey dryer who is also on the line

welcome back Casey. Hey Matt how you doing? You know strange times. It's been better.

Which we will be talking about with our other colleague, particularly your colleague in space

policy and advocacy at the Society, Brendan Curry shortly, they are very odd times.

I mean anybody who's heard, as we speak, the most recent episode of the weekly version of Planetary Radio knows that it opened in a way

that we've never done before with a statement that I made and a period of

silence we are all of us at the planetary society dealing with, I mean we were already

dealing with a pandemic and now of course the unrest and the reactions to the injustice that we have witnessed in this country.

Of course there's plenty to go around around the world.

As all of our listeners know, it has really shaken the United States.

And the Planetary Society is considering how to respond.

As the days go by, we've taken a few actions there's much more to come but it's something

that is still a work in progress and you know I for one I'm very glad to see our organization

which of course is focused generally on other things on as I said during

the regular show outward outward and upward,

we also focus on human needs.

And one of those is we think the human need

to discover and explore.

But you have to make room for people to be able to do that and to be able to

look up in wonder.

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