President Newt Gingrich? About as likely as a former B-list movie actor getting to the Oval Office.
Right. At any road Gregory Anderson interviewed Newt in 'The Space Review'
President Gingrich has a ring doesn't it? And the best part? Having a fellow named 'Newt' in the White House would drive the our supposed betters bonkers.
Right. At any road Gregory Anderson interviewed Newt in 'The Space Review'
I am for a dramatic increase in our efforts to reach out into space, but I am for doing virtually all of it outside of NASA through prizes and tax incentives. NASA is an aging, unimaginative, bureaucracy committed to over-engineering and risk-avoidance which is actually diverting resources from the achievements we need and stifling the entrepreneurial and risk-taking spirit necessary to lead in space exploration.
There ought to be tax credits for manufacturing in space and tax credits for developing commercial flights into near space for space tourism so we build a very robust launch program in the private sector. We need a lot of competitive players, not simply one or two cumbersome large bureaucratic government contractors.
We should simply interpret the (1967 Outer Space)Treaty very broadly and state that in the absence of an international regime, people can pursue legitimate investment and development within national law.
For those who see manned space as having no role they would have thought the Wright Brothers were irrelevant in 1903. The human race has a destiny to spread across the solar system and then across the stars. I prefer that destiny be led by free people.
President Gingrich has a ring doesn't it? And the best part? Having a fellow named 'Newt' in the White House would drive the our supposed betters bonkers.
