Could Trump give the country ‘an inspirational space program?

The Hill ^ | Jan 15, 2016 | Mark R. Whittington

[Marcus]

Recently Robert Bigelow, the Nevada real estate tycoon who has started a commercial space company, opened his Twitter account with a shout-out to Donald Trump, a New York real estate tycoon who has started his own campaign for the presidency of the United States. Bigelow took the tweet down, but then reposted it with some additional commentary.

“What this country needs is an inspirational space program. I'll bet @realDonaldTrump could do it.”

[MIchaelTArchangel]

He already has just by exploiting the inner space between his ears.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We have WAAAAAY more pressing needs than that.

[JimRed]

Stop all foreign aid and welfare (replace them with charity freely given) and dedicate the savings to space.

[JimRed]

Stop all foreign aid and welfare (replace them with charity freely given) and dedicate the savings to space.

[Pearls Before Swine]

What about Muslim scientific self-esteem?

[Cyman]

I would be all for Trump or Cruz or anyone else inspiring me by sending Obama to Mars. One way.

[roadcat]

What about Muslim scientific self-esteem?

President Kennedy proposed putting an American on the Moon within the decade in the 1960s. Obama proposed putting Muslims in America. So inspirational.

[al baby]

its hard to reach for the stars when ones penis is engaged in a docking maneuver with a goat !!!

[GeronL]

lol

I remember him saying we need to fix the roads first, as if that was a federal thing

[Pearls Before Swine]

Al baby... I was having an evening cocktail, and you almost made me ruin my keyboard.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Obama shut down NASA because the only people who worked there suffered from white privilege.

It would be racist to crank it back up.

[jonrd463]

Whenever the subject of space exploration comes up, there are always the voices that scream how every terrestrial problem under the sun has to be fixed before we look to the stars. What they seem to miss is that just about every major technological breakthrough that makes life easy to live is rooted in the space program.

I for one would love to see 60’s era enthusiasm in space. It couldn’t be a better time too, with private enterprise making such great strides. The single positive in the recent budget deal was fully funding NASA. It’s just too bad it came with a steaming pile of crap.

[AndyJackson]

We have WAAAAAY more pressing needs than that.

it is one thing to continue scientific exploration with satellites, which are relatively inexpensive. The problem is that everyone who thinks space program thinks manned space-flight - and that really runs the costs up.

[MamaB]

Me too. We are involved in space work. The only company in the world which is approved by many countries to do this. My daughter and I were talking about this a few weeks ago. She said it's a shame that after going to the moon, the powers that be said, “ok, we did that so let's stop.” Most people have no idea what space research did for people. It was like after going to the old west, people said let's stay east of the Mississippi. We have been out there. Nothing to see. I just do not understand. I have been interested in space ever since Sputnik.

[mcshot]

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