Thank you for being here tonight, everyone.

Hi, hi, hi, hi.

Tonight we are here to discuss the future of space politics this week on Planetary Radio.

I'm Sarah Al-Ahmit of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

And because this is a joint presentation of both our regular planetary radio show and space policy edition, I'm joined by Casey Dreyer, our chief of space policy, and oh my gosh, Casey,

I think we've filled this whole, this whole crowd all the way to the end. We are coming to you

in front of a live audience at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, which is in Washington, D.C.

We're on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the Capitol Building.

This building is a place, a forum where people come to discuss the policies

that are going to shape the future here on Earth and in space.

So please give another round of applause to our beautiful hosts for having us here tonight.

Thank you. please give another round of applause to our beautiful hosts for having us here tonight. So this is an interesting show because on the front end we're going to be talking about

some of the amazing science that's going on, especially some of the amazing missions that have come out of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Then about halfway through, we're going to kick into politics mode.

We're going to invite some legislators up and other guests

and discuss a bit about this moment in space policy and how we see the future of space politics shaping up.

But before we get into that, I wanted to ask how many of you are familiar with planetary radio and listen on a regular basis.

Thank you so much.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the show, for 22 years this has been going on, it started as a radio show and then became a podcast. Now, we share

stories from people from all over the world who are into space exploration. This includes the

scientists that work on the missions, but also people who are entertainers and advocates and people

from all different realms of science fiction.

Many, many people have been on the show throughout its tenure, and it comes out every Wednesday morning.

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