There’s been a frisson of interest in Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Congressman who is continuing his quixotic quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, based on a press release his campaign issued over the weekend on space policy. In the release Kucinich calls for tripling NASA’s budget, although he is vague regarding how he would spend this money other than to support the goals of the Space Exploration Act (HR 3057). While some have treated this as a new announcement, it’s not: Kucinich has made several statements in the past calling for large increases in NASA’s budget. Back in December his campaign contacted me for a Space Review article, providing statements about the candidate’s positions on space policy issues using language identical to that in the press release. Of course, it’s a moot point, as the odds of NASA getting its budget tripled are roughly in the same range of improbability as the odds Kucinich winning the nomination…
