Second segment of Newt and Greta
Newt Gingrich's Jan 25, 2012 space policy speech to voters
If Newt is crazy for his moon proposal, so was John F Kennedy for his!!!! And we went to the moon, didn’t we?
PHOOEY to the obama-kissing media!!!! PHOOEY to Romney!!!!
When the Apollo mission was conceived, no one had ever been to the moon. Everything which had to be done was INVENTED, including orbital mechanics of getting beyond LEO. Out of all those inventions, which were given away, came a long list of things we take for granted today, and even “cannot live without” - cell phones for example.
Since NASA gave the invented tech away, they received little ROI, and the public perceived those new things as coming from this or that corporation's resident geniuses. No connection was made, and therefore the general pubic perceived the whole enterprise as a waste of time, money, and maybe even faked.
Sure we have been to the moon and the Chinese can use that to get there. However, no one has ever lived on the moon. All the tech necessary to live on the moon will have to be INVENTED.
As patterns go, all the tech which flows from those inventions will become common place one day.
But unlike the US, China will not give that tech away, and that is the money to be made by living on the moon.
NG may be all the things his detractors say he is, but then so it it for the other candidates as well.
I do not long for the return of days of Reagan, since I was personally screwed by his policies, but I do long for the return for the days of US manned space exploration.
Many of Newt’s ‘wacky’ ideas are not wacky.
I think it was depressing to a lot of people that the US gave up on space exploration in favor of socialism.
However, I think Newt would do well to downplay the moon and grannies from now on and concentrate what concerns people directly at the moment.
Then, when he’s elected he can push The Final Frontier.