Episode 5: Should the promise of renewed space exploration be a focus of political campaigns?

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?