Posted on 01/19/2008 9:20:07 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
Former N.Y. Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Friday pledged his unwavering support to return America to the moon and send astronauts to Mars, promising that if he were elected president space would be a pillar of his administration.
"A strong NASA and a revitalized space program will be a priority for a Giuliani Administration from day one," he told a group of about 35 space industry and local officials gathered at space policy round table organized by the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast. He then drove home his promise with a vow to close the gap between the retirement of the space shuttle and the development of the next generation of manned rockets.
“Florida will continue to be the center of America’s space program … and our emerging space industry,” he said.
It was exactly the message that the group had been hoping for. The EDC and industry lobbyists, worried about the retirement of the space shuttle in 2010, have been trying for months to get presidential candidates from both parties to articulate support for NASA and manned space exploration. The EDC recently sent out invitations to all candidates in the hope of drumming up support for the space program. The issue could turn out to be crucial to wining the state, they argue.
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I hope ALL the candidates will support NASA and vision for space exploration as strongly as this.
I do too, but more importantly I hope the next president appoints a NASA administrator that would consider for a second that they could be wrong. Rather than giving us the shaft (in more ways than one).
DIRECTly to the Moon and Mars.
Just go away already Rudy!
Many of us would like to see Giuliani sent to the moon, McCain, too!
Simply sounds like pandering to me, but who knows.
Yup, he’s promising the moon, the stars will be after his next defeat.
The Moon??? That’s so 70’s...BORING!
Been there, done that, nothing there.
I think Fred ought to come out tomorrow and call for sending a man to Mars.
That would really be exciting!
What other pandering can he come up with? Didn’t he recently come up with some sort of pandering when it comes to a form of Federal home insurance that would benefit Floridians disproportionately? Geeez, he might as well just stay down there.
I say we send a WOMAN to the Moon.
And I have the perfect one - Hillary!
ALL of NASA or just some astronauts?
“Simply sounds like pandering to me, but who knows.”
Probably. It is not like he ever mentioned it before.
But I am a strong space advocate, and happy to see it elevated to some kind of visiblity this election.
Hilda-bama would cancel for sure lunar missions, and have NASA endlessly study global warming.
Rudy? Rudy who?
LOL
A BIG 10-4 on that!
Nobody gives a darn about going back to the moon!! Give me a damned break. The last time we went,we paid all the money and the silly sob got up there and claimed it for “mankind”. BS — It was THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA moon.Close nasa down and send me my rebate!!!
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In 2005 President BUSH first announced that Americans would be landing on the Planet Mars in 2025.
A new Democrat Congress has been quietly undercutting NASA’s Mars funding, so NASA has had to recently announce that Americans will be landing on the Planet Mars on 2035 instead.
Russia has just gleefully announced that it will be landing Rusians on the Planet Mars in 2025, America’s original target.
Vote next time around like your very future depends on it.
‘Cause it does.
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Rudy is saying anything to get the Florida vote. He’s running ads promising to lower insurance rates too.
I hope that as we are taxed for all of this science, we have a definite and measurable goal as we blithely go back to space.
Other than pandering to the aerospace industry, what would be Guiliani’s top three goals for a a return to the moon?
I’ll bet he hasn’t worked that out.
Okay. Fine. Lets go to the Moon, go to Mars, but all the money is in Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and in the Asteroid Belt. Why?
Plantinum Group Metals (PGMs, or PeGgyMays). One average sized asteroid contains enough PeGgyMays to equal the World’s Annual Gross Product!!!
The mining and processing can be done in space - a vacuum with zero gravity and unlimited solar power - saving Earth from the pollution of mining waste products.
Going into space is ridiculous unless it becomes lucrative. There are many high tech applications for PeGgyMaes but a drastic shortage here on Easth as the metals are formed hearer the Earth’s core.
“Close nasa down and send me my rebate!!!”
The nations that lead on the frontier, dictate the course of human history.
Perhaps you would rather the western world NOT lead?
And if you want a rebate, I think you should look at entitlements first....
http://www.federalbudget.com/chart.gif
We have enough moon rocks from the last few trips.
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