2012-09-28
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“ They’re planning on going to the Moon, and some people say, oh, we’ve got to get to the Moon, we’ve got to get there in a hurry to prove we can get there before China. It’s like, guys, we were there a long time ago, all right? ”
Mitt Romney on China’s space programme and a return to the moon, quoted in Jeff Foust’s article in The Space Review: Shedding a little more light on space policy.
The whole thing is well worth a read, particularly for noting that, while Presidents and candidates love to talk about NASA, it’s the legislative branch (responding to the Office of Management and Budget’s requests) that shares responsibility for the year-to-year funding of the agency.
