Welcome to the August 2019 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio.

We are glad to have you back and have a lot to celebrate and a good deal of stuff happening in Washington DC to talk with you about and

Casey dryer has another very special guest. Casey is with us as I speak. He is the chief

advocate for the Planetary Society. Welcome back. Hey Matt, welcome back to our

normal way of doing things here, Space Policy Edition.

Definitely, although I certainly hope that people will check out the work that you have done

on that special Apollo series, which as we speak is not quite done, there will be a little wrap-up

episode that I'm looking forward to talking with you about. But these conversations that you've had,

in fact we're going to hear another one as part of Space Policy Edition today that you've done a great job of packaging.

Yeah, thanks Matt. That was a lot of fun to put together. It's called a political history of Apollo.

You can find it on any of the major podcast directories, Spotify, Apple, Google.

It was basically taking these interviews, some of which we will hear today, Emily Margulis,

who is a historian specializing on space tourism on Earth, and putting together

this whole series of look at the beginning of Apollo, what it was like in the country while it was happening,

and then of course why Apollo ended really from a policy and

politics perspective to really augment all of the exciting stuff that actually

happened with the context and it really makes all of us, I think, particularly space advocates, appreciate what it took to

achieve something like Apollo and how to compare modern efforts to go to the Moon to the

one and only data point that we have of a successful human lunar mission.

So I may be a little biased on this, but I think it's a pretty good show.

I was happy with it.

I agree with you.

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