Welcome again everyone to the Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. I'm Matt Kaplan,

the host of the weekly show, joined as always on SPE because it wouldn't be SPE without

by the Senior Space Policy Advisor and Chief Advocate of the Planetary Society. Welcome,

Casey Dreyer. I guess we were both hoping with the rest of the United States and a lot of the

world that we would have more to talk about regarding the election today, but not just yet.

Yeah, I was perhaps a bit optimistic last week when I gave my little intro to our bonus episode

that we would delay this show by one week in order to talk about the results and what it means for

Space Science going forward in the next Congress. And, you know, we just don't know. This is at the

time we're recording this. It still could be either Republican or Democratic control if you

at the House or the Senate. Either way, it will be very close. And so we actually brought in

a colleague and friend of mine, Bethany Johns, who's the Deputy Director of the American Astronomical

Society. We kind of go through this, right? We talk about what does it mean to be in a closely

divided Congress? What are our priorities going to be going forward? So we still talk a lot about

the implications of this election. Just with the caveat that the final outcome and implications,

we probably actually won't know until January of February of next year. Not just the elections,

but who serves in committees and where the final setup of Congress is going to look like.

We'll have to leave it at that for now, but I look forward to hearing this conversation you've had

with Bethany because so much of not just astronomy and space exploration, but so much of what

happens in the United States will be determined by the balance that is struck in the legislative

branch here in the United States. In the meantime, Casey, you have a position about dealing with

that legislative branch that you want to make sure everybody knows is open. This is a fun thing

to talk about, right? So right now, the planetary society is hiring. If you want to work with me,

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