
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
With the election over, we are finally going to explore a topic that we’ve wanted to discuss since the first episode.
Should the promise of renewed space exploration be a focus of political campaigns?
Back in 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy promised to make space exploration a main point of his presidency; LBJ and Nixon both carried this goal through the rest of the 1960s, leading mankind to the Moon. As the United States enters a period of renewed excitement for manned spaceflight, will and should presidential candidates promote their views on space exploration; and do the American people want to hear this position?
5
11 ratings
With the election over, we are finally going to explore a topic that we’ve wanted to discuss since the first episode.
Should the promise of renewed space exploration be a focus of political campaigns?
Back in 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy promised to make space exploration a main point of his presidency; LBJ and Nixon both carried this goal through the rest of the 1960s, leading mankind to the Moon. As the United States enters a period of renewed excitement for manned spaceflight, will and should presidential candidates promote their views on space exploration; and do the American people want to hear this position?