We should listen to Gingrich's space ideas: Jeffrey Goldberg
(NEWSER) - Jeffrey Goldberg is not what one might call a Newt Gingrich fan, but as he sat on the tarmac at Reagan National Airport gazing at the space shuttle Discovery as it prepared for its final flight, he realized something: "On the matter of space exploration … Newt Gingrich is exactly right." With no immediate plans to put Americans back into space, the US space program is "aimless." Writing for Bloomberg, Goldberg argues that "every year that goes by without a grand vision for space exploration [is] a year in which thousands of students otherwise inclined to study science fail to discern its romantic and heroic possibilities." More»
