Hit “follow” on this show so you don't miss Bill Nye the Science Guy next week. Today, Nayeema ask Bill’s colleague Casey Dreier: do we really need to go to space? Is it worth billions of dollars? How does it make my life better? What's more important: space science or dudes on the moon? And can’t Elon Musk just do all the space science things for us? 
Casey Dreier is the Chief of Space Policy at the <a href="https://www.planetary.org">Planetary Society</a> — the independent nonprofit founded by Carl Sagan and now led by Bill Nye. From the Drake Equation to NASA budget wars, he explains to Nayeema how exploring the cosmos has been critical to everything from GPS to semiconductors, and he hints at the nuclear innovations that could come next. It’s a critical conversation at a time when the government is shut down and there is a looming threat to cut NASA’s ~$25 billion budget and move a lot of the money that's there to human space flight instead of space science.
If you’re cosmos-curious: The Planetary Society is made possible with the support of individuals across the globe. You can be part of it by heading to <a href="http://planetary.org/join">planetary.org/join </a>and you can find more of Casey’s cosmic knowledge over on <a href="https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/space-policy-edition">Planetary Radio’s The Space Policy Edition podcast</a> or in his <a href="https://www.planetary.org/space-advocate-newsletter">newsletter</a>. 
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