Welcome to this month's Space Policy Edition. I'm Casey Dryer, the Chief of Space Policy

here at the Planetary Society. You may notice the absence of my colleague Sarah who is unfortunately

sick and unable to join us, but really excited to have with me this month. My new colleague

who we tease last month, Jack Kerley, the Director of Government Relations here at the Planetary

Society. Jack? Hi Casey, it's very nice to be here today. Hey Jack, really excited to

have you, we'll talk with you just a second about what you've been up to in Washington, DC.

But first I have to tease our episode this month. I'm really excited to introduce Eric

Kinesvold, a PhD astrophysicist and author of the new book Off Earth, Ethical Questions

and Quantaries for Living and Outer Space. We'll be joining us here in just a few minutes to

talk about the variety of ethical implications of space settlement and space exploration.

These are really fascinating topics to me and we've had space philosophers here on the

show in the past. Eric's book is super accessible, really provocative, really interesting,

and goes on sale this next week in the United States and around the world. She'll be joining

us here in just a few minutes. Do not miss out on that interview. In the meantime, Jack,

you're starting to work in for us here at the Planetary Society. How's your first

week's been?

So the first few weeks have been great. I'm not sure if this is what every month is

going to be like, but being out in Pasadena with our communication staff for the staff

retreat was great. Getting to know everybody on staff at the Planetary Society and folks

on the board has been fantastic, a great opportunity and I'm really looking forward to

hitting the ground running here in DC.

And I think you really are and I don't just say that as someone who is nominally helping

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