November 3, 2024

"Trump Already Wins on Space Program" - Newsmax


President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris may take vastly different policy directions for NASA, commercial space, and defending the high frontier.

Will America lead the world to great accomplishments and opportunities in space, or surrender our lead to China? The stakes are critical for our future and that of the free world.

Americans have been astonished by the grand achievements by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and by NASA over the decades. Soon, NASA and SpaceX will take Americans back to the moon.

President Trump achieved a powerful record of successes. He resurrected the return to the moon that President Barack Obama had abolished. He established the United States Space Force. He recreated the National Space Council for the first time since 1993 and made it a serious policy-making entity.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT NEWSMAX

October 29, 2024

President Trump's Record of Success


Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

President Trump rescued NASA and our space program at a dark time. President Obama had cancelled our return to the Moon for without logical reasons. 

There's three likely theories. Obama's expressed ideological opposition to anything that looked like 'American exceptionalism.' The possibility that China threatened to block rare earth exports if we dared return to the Moon. Too much of a 'Bush program.' Evidence points to perhaps all three.

Had Obama supported the minor increase in NASA's budget that the Augustine Commission identified would be necessary for the return to the Moon, Congress would have passed it. That was a time of unlimited deficit spending and earmarks. 

But that was not the purpose of the Commission. In Washington, if you want to do something or do not want to do something, but create a 'commission' designed to give you the answer you wanted. The Commission was designed to conclude that returning to the Moon was essentially impossible, not report the actions and budget necessary to return to the Moon.. 

We literally could have a base on the Moon today, and children today could point to 'the light on the Moon' that showed humanity had forever escaped decades of Earth-orbit-bound research and into a bright future of unlimited space exploration.

Today, as a result of Obama's actions, China is racing to beat us to the Moon--and they intend to rule space as they advance towards a world ruled by China and their Communist system. They have an unlimited budget and no political opposition. The stakes are that high; China seeks dominance of space as demonstrated on Earth.

Ye Peijian, the head of China’s military-led Lunar Exploration Program declared China's intentions in 2017:

“The universe is like the ocean: the moon is like the Diaoyu Islands and Mars is like Huangyan Island.”

Those are China’s names for the islands in the East and South China Seas that China seized and militarized in violation of the 400 years of freedom of the seas and the Law of the Sea Treaty; an ominous warning of their goal to similarly dominate outer space.

Kamala Harris's known record of leadership on space is almost non-existent after four years as the Chair of the National Space Council. Aside from embarrassingly-incomprehensible remarks about space and a few prepared speeches, there's little reason to believe she has more interest in space than she did as Border Czar to secure the border. 

The Biden-Harris White House has thrown roadblocks in the way of developing SpaceX's Starship. We cannot expect that would improve under an even more radical Harris-Walz administration--and could result in actively preventing the development of the Starship that NASA has contracted to land astronauts on the Moon as part of Artemis III.

Harris and Walz never congratulated SpaceX for the recent capture of their Starship booster--something that was science fiction until this month. That sends a chilling message.

As a Vice President who would chair the Council (unless it is abolished), Gov. Tim Walz's public statements regarding space have only been to attack Elon Musk for what can only be described as childish and partisan reasons. 

Due to the ideological battle against free speech on the internet, Harris and Walz may carry out threats made by many Democratic Party leaders to actively punish or bankrupt Elon Musk for running X.com. As an example, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called for arresting Elon Musk and cancelling all government contracts with SpaceX--which would ground our space program, doom the International Space Station, and end the Artemis program to return to the Moon. An administration more focused on 'getting Elon' than advancing space exploration could subject him to multiple investigations and legal charges.

The Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration judges Kamala Harris and Tim Walz as not just incapable of advancing our space program, but because both are on the hard-left-wing of the Democratic Party, they may repeat Obama's dismemberment of the return to the Moon--which gave China a 20-year head start to claim the Moon. 

President Trump has a proven track record for rebuilding our space program and returning us to the pathways to the Moon and Mars. He will cease the Biden-Harris war on Elon Musk and we'll get to the Moon and Mars far sooner than NASA's current plans and delays would indicate.

As president, Trump will advance America to a bold future of exploration and commerce in space, and advance the day when children will marvel at the 'light on the Moon.'

October 14, 2024

Starship Success!

 

Photo credit NasaSpaceFlight.com

Congratulations to the SpaceX Starship team for a spectacular launch and landing! What was science fiction last week is science fact today. The precision required to ace the landing is incredible. 

This is a major step towards routine Starship operations that can launch huge cargos to orbit, send NASA probes to distant planets, and land American astronauts on the Moon. And one day sooner than most imagine, uncrewed and crewed landings on Mars.

This is the ship that will build bases on the Moon and Mars. This is the ship that will take tourists to orbit for the cost of a luxury cruise. And this is the ship that could provide point to point service to anywhere on Earth in an hour.

We look forward to the next text flights, and hopefully soon, the first test landing on the Moon as part of Artemis.

Godspeed for your next Starship flight.