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Why will Gingrich not have a permanent moon base at the end of his presidency?

Settled on 05/04/2012 07:29 Settled by

http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/05/03/gingrich-ends-his-campaign-but-not-his-interest-in-space/
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Appealing to residents of the state's economically struggling "Space Coast," Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich promised to have a permanent U.S. base on the moon by the end of his second term as president.
To cheers and applause in an area that has suffered major job loss since the cancellation of the space shuttle, Gingrich said, "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.
"We will have commercial near-Earth activities that include science, tourism and manufacturing, and are designed to create a robust industry precisely on the model of the development of the airlines of the 1930s, because it is in our interest to acquire so much experience in space that we clearly have a capacity that the Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to matching."
He also said that by the end of 2020, the country would have "the first continuous propulsion system in space" capable of allowing people travel to Mars.
"I am sick of being told we have to be timid and I am sick of being told we have to be limited in technologies that are 50 years old," the former House speaker told the crowd at a "space round table" he hosted at a Holiday Inn.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57366364-503544/gingrich-i-want-to-build-a-moon-base/
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