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

here at the Planetary Society. Thank you for joining us this month. We will be talking

about a grab bag of topics. This is the summer. Here is nice and warm, at least in this latitude

of the world. And it seems like a good time to check in on a variety of issues with my

colleague and friend Jack Curie, our Director of Government Relations here at the Planetary

Society. Jack, how you doing? I'm doing great, Casey. How are you? I'm pretty, it's a lot

going on in my life that we'll talk about next month. But yes, I'm doing great. We're

working hard. We're signing people up for the day of action, which is a plug here that

we might as well mention coming up in September. And otherwise, just enjoying the Fourth of

July and the warm weather that we're getting. But there's a lot happening in space. And

particularly on the congressional front, there's been some advancements. And we talked about

this last month in terms of the debt ceiling. But let's refresh. I wanted to check in with

you, Jack. You're based in Washington, DC. You're out on the Capitol. You're out in the

offices. You're you're out there functionally every day. Stuff seems to be happening, but

nothing is we don't have hard numbers yet. So I wanted to check in. Where are we on the

fiscal year 2024 budget for NASA? So a lot has happened in just the last month, which

I think was the last time that we we checked in albeit it was in person. When you were when

you were in DC, the Congress was in session for I believe an unprecedented seven week stretch

starting in April. And it just recently ended in mid June. They're on recess right now

for the Fourth of July holiday. In that time, since the last episode, we finally have allocations

for all of the subcommittees within the appropriations committee. So these are the the pots of money

now, the 12 pots of money that agencies like NASA will be drawing from before the September

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