Hello and welcome to the space policy edition of Planetary Radio.

I'm Casey Dreyer, the chief of space policy for the Planetary Society, welcoming you to another episode that looks into the policies and processes and behind the scenes things that drive space exploration.

Joining me is my colleague Jack Carali, the director of government relations here at the

Planetary Society.

Jack, welcome to the intro part of the space policy edition.

Of course.

Thank you.

Thank you, Casey.

It's great to be back.

It's been, I think we've been busy this past year, and so it's really nice to be back in the sandal and on the show with you

to talk about some really important space policy topics. It's been too long, but yes,

you've had better things to do, let's say, in the last year, you know, saving NASA science.

Can we just take like a mini victory lap now that it's official, like as we record this?

I think it is only right that we do.

Take a quick run around the block here, Jack.

Let's just, before we even go into anything else with this episode, what just happened

that we should all be proud of?

So what really just happened, like quite literally, like within the last month,

that started January 5th, the House introduced a minibus funding bill right before the Congress was about

to go back into session that fully funded all of our space priorities, all of our science

priorities in NASA, as well as the National

Science Foundation. This was a piece of legislation that from our sources was negotiated

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