http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2808/newt-gingrich-space-policy
THE SUPERANNUATED AMONG US REMEMBER HOW RONALD REAGAN WAS REVILED FOR HIS “STAR WARS” INITIATIVE….WHAT THEY HAVE FORGOTTEN IS THAT NEWT IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE HEIR TO RONALD REGAN’S TORCH…..RSK
If anyone thinks that the Obama administration space policy has been successful, he should simply read this tweet from the well-known astrophysicist and Director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, Neil Degrasse Tyson: “Has the first person to set foot on Mars been born yet, you ask? Yup. In Beijing.”
If the next President does decide to build a space-based missile-defense system, he will, as usual, be faced with a huge political uproar from people who, in a disconnect of logic, somehow believe that if the US is undefended, no-one will then wish to attack it. He will also be faced by the question of how to deploy a large number of orbital interceptors at a reasonable cost. But if the US is to stay defended, it is necessary to deploy them quickly — at the very most within four years.
In an interview in December 2011, Republican Presidential candidate, Governor Mitt Romney, called his fellow Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s ideas on space policy “zany”– in particular two concepts Gingrich has embraced over the years: “mirrors to light highways at night” and a lunar colony.
What Gingrich understands — most of the time at least — and what Romney has yet to learn, is that NASA’s civil program and the US military’s space programs are intertwined technologically, politically and financially.