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‘Newt Skywalker’ aims for the Moon and Mars

In a campaign stop today along Florida’s Space Coast, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich unveiled his vision for US goals in space: by 2020, he says, he wants a permanent base on the Moon. By then, he also wants constant near-Earth orbit commercial activity supporting science, tourism and manufacturing — and he also wants a propulsion system in place by then that would allow a manned trip to Mars by 2030. He even suggests that he would devote 10% of the NASA’s budget to support entrepreneurial prizes of the kind that spurred Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic. 

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