Comments on: Space and Solutions Day http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=space-and-solutions-day Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Space Politics » Solutions Day? Not so much http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23270 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:39 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23270 […] listened to the live webcast Saturday afternoon of the space session of Newt Gingrich’s “Solutions Day” event, an hour-long discussion led by former congressman Bob Walker. (The video of the event is […]

]]> By: Paul Torrance http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23204 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:12:32 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23204 Back when Gingrich was Speaker, I didn’t really like him – the captured cell phone conversation didn’t help him either. But now, years later, I look back, and seems a lot Gingrich said makes common sense.

I say give Newt’s solutions day a chance. National Newt solutions day.
National “Newtlution day”. OK just having some fun but 9/11 and the Columbia loss revealed the NSA, CIA, FBI, NASA and it appears by sampling many of our Bureaucracies are not planning ahead.

One problem with a solution day is not knowing what the problem is to begin with. I have thought about doing a diagnosis of one Bureaucratic patient, just for fun, to show some of the ailments and infections our Bureaucracies suffer from.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23180 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:12:41 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23180 Bob Walker appears to be giving TWO talks as far I can tell from Newt’s schedule of speakers.

One on space and the other on the hydrogen economy.

To a large extent, a genuine hydrogen economy would benefit from a more abundant deployment of fuel cells and more abundant platinum group metals would help that process.

If Dennis Wingo is correct about recovering PGM from asteroid fragments on the lunar surface, then a nice connection could be made between the two talks being given by Bob Walker.

From the website:

“Green Conservatism & Hydrogen – Unlimited Energy with a Clean Environment” While assuring a clean environment and at the same time growing energy supplies is seen as incompatible by some, technology and new materials science provide an opportunity to meet global demands for increased energy in an environmentally benign way. The promise of greater, yet cleaner energy than that provided by fossil fuel dependence can enhance national security, create worldwide economic activity, and provide a cleaner and healthier future. Former Congressman Robert Walker will present such a vision in a proposal for converting to a hydrogen energy economy which can produce unlimited an unlimited supply of affordable, clean fuel for our future. Register now. Presenter: Robert S. Walker is Chairman of Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates and a former Republican Congressman, and is recognized as one of Washington’s leading political strategists. Congressman Walker retired from the U.S. House of Representatives after serving Pennsylvania’s 16th District for twenty years.

]]> By: anonymous.space http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23145 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:16:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23145 Off-topic but there’s some (very) brief and paraphrased commentary on civil space exploration programs from four Democratic Presidential candidates here:

http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php

FWIW…

]]> By: Charles In Houston http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23102 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:43:52 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23102 Aren’t we still confusing space research and NASA? Space research is paid for much more by the military than any other agency. They do mention the national security motivation for space so they do recognize that space is still a big priority for the military.

Certainly the military sends few missions to the Moon, but they have done that as well.

But if we want to focus on the technology developed for space, the research paid for that is done with satellites, etc – we should be looking at the military budget. NASA is a relatively small part of that and will be for the foreseeable future. The military is still using the same (reliable) launch vehicles (Delta, Atlas) and they are using newer vehicles as well.

The military seems to have avoided much of the political interference that other agencies have seen.

Charles

]]> By: al Fansome http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23100 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:05:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23100 Since Mr. Walker was Chairman of the House Science Committee, and since his former Staff Director of the Space Subcommittee is now the Deputy Administrator of NASA , I personally will be quite interested in finding out what he is willing to say about how NASA is falling short, and what they should do different.

I am guessing he will speak in generalities, and the end result will not be that interesting to serious policy analysts or advocates.

– Al

]]> By: MarkWhittington http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23097 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:26:51 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/09/27/space-and-solutions-day/#comment-23097 Actually, since Bob Walker, former Chairman of the House Science Committee, is heading up the Space portion of Solutions Day, it might be more interesting to find out his views on prizes and whether he thinks a big, all encompassing Mars Prize is doable. It’ll be interesting to see what sort of agenda is arrived at.

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