Rohrabacher On The President's Plan

03/10/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) has an article in the Washington Times: Not just moonwalking that supports the President's new direction in space. I particularly like this section where he discusses the fact that the moon is profitable: bq. Finally, the profitability of a lunar presence must be understood. The moon is the appropriate staging site for future space explorationandnear-Earth space activity. It is an easier launch platform than Earth and is a source of raw materials. Due to the lower gravity, the cost of space flights originating on the moon is significantly less than for Earth. Much of the hardware for living on the moon and for the exploration can be made from raw materials mined from the moon itself.

My real concern is that these efforts will be caught up in election year “whatever the other guy says, its bad” kind politicing we're seein these days. Is there a pro-space, private enterprise Democrat out there we can talk in to defuse the politics before they ruin the good stuff along the way?