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While Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has been the subject of criticism and even satire for his comments about establishing a permanent lunar base (as the first step to what eventually could be statehood for a lunar settlement), the former Speaker of the House doesn’t appear to be backing down from those statements. In an […] “This is my new euphemism for getting off track,” writes veteran journalist Gwen Ifill of the term “moon colonies”, in the wake of GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s speech last month and the reaction to it. “Most candidates are pretty good at driving home the same points over and over again, but once in a […] This morning we noted that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized fellow candidate Newt Gingrich’s plans for lunar bases in a letter on the Romney campaign web site, even though space policy looked to be in the rearview mirror after the Florida primary earlier this week. Now another Republican candidate has joined in. In a […] The conventional wisdom was that, after the Florida primary earlier this week, space policy would fade from the presidential campaign at least though the rest of the GOP primary race. By and large, that’s been the case: as the candidates have moved on to Nevada and other states, they’ve focused their attention on other issues, […] Yesterday House and Senate conferees released the final, compromise version of a long-delayed FAA reauthorization bill that Congress is expected to pass in the coming days. While the debate about the bill revolved primarily around labor provisions in the bill, the commercial space transportation industry was waiting to see if it would contain an extension […] Last night Mitt Romney won a “decisive victory” in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, with 46 percent of the statewide vote. Many space advocates are wondering if the candidates’ space positions, particularly the speeches made last week by Romney and Newt Gingrich, made much of a difference. One way to check is to see […] |
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