Hello everyone. Welcome to the Space Policy Edition for March 1st of 2019, the Space Policy Edition of

Planetary Radio. I'm your host and producer Matt Kaplan. I hope you're listening

to the weekly version of the show as well, but every

first Friday of the month, at least we try for every first Friday, we bring you this

special visit with the Chief Advocate for the Planetary Society, Casey Dreyer.

Welcome, Casey.

Hey Matt, always happy to be back on my favorite edition of Planetary Radio.

I'm not a bit surprised.

Casey, you have a very special guest today. It's one of our perennial favorites on

planetary radio and he happens to be a board member of the planetary society as

well it's John Logston. We have a couple of other things to cover first, but do you want to tease that a little bit?

Yeah, John has a new book out called Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier that looks into a great depth and really some fascinating insights into the space policy decisions made by Ronald Reagan and the implications of those over the last few decades.

So we really go into that. It's fascinating again kind of seeing some very familiar

debates that were happening in the early 80s that are happening now. So stick around

for that interview. It's a lot of fun. Coming up in moments, but before we get to some of the news and we won't be able to cover a lot of what we might have been able to talk about,

we certainly want to talk about the NASA budget and one other blog post that you've published at planetary.org just recently

Casey which is very concerning but we have to begin with our usual pitch to become a

member of the Planetary Society.

Planetary.org-slash membership.

You can stand behind this program, all a Planetary Radio,

and so much more, everything that the society does. We really depend on our members to make

it all happen, all of our advocacy efforts which have been so remarkably successful with participation and leadership by Casey.

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