One of the four panels I am on at Netroots Nation focuses on developing a progressive space policy (it is today at 3:00 p.m. central time). On this panel, I have been specifically tasked with explaining why the netroots should care about space policy. Now, personally I think the netroots is geeky enough that many of us already do care about space policy, at least in so much as how it relates to the shaky alliance between the rebel cylons and the humans.
Still, since I am never one to turn down an easy task, in the extended entry I offer three reasons why the progressive movement should take space policy seriously.