@jeannebodine: “…Getting Mr. Romney to “say” he’ll do this or that is not the problem. Hint: it’s Mitt Romney….” I think Mitt said the other day – to the NASA folk, that he wasn’t going to stand there and make big, empty promises to them. He spoke in terms of developing a good reason to go to space, the Moon, whatever, not just out of hubris or of fear for the Chinese.
And to Rand Simberg, why don’t you take the snottiness out of this missive and send it to Romney? Why doesn’t the CEI put together a program, using some of that free enterprise space development work and hardware that you wrote about yesterday, and fold it into the plan? And maybe, Newt’s “prize” idea could be part of it. As far a NASA goes, I think they can be retired. If it’s part of government, today, then it’s basically worthless.
