Rudy in Huntsville

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is scheduled to visit the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville and meet with reporters there today. The forum would suggest that he might say something about space policy, unless he pulls a John Kerry (who went to KSC and talked about health care; fortunately, bunnysuits should not be […]

Giuliani wants to “aggressively pursue space exploration”

The Tallahassee Democrat reports on a meeting that Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani held yesterday with Republican legislators and governor Charlie Crist in Florida. The article states that, after his speech, Giuliani said he “supported continuing to aggressively pursue space exploration”, but the article offers no other details. Instead, the article notes that the former […]

McCain says something about space

But not too much. From an AP article about a Florida appearance by the Arizona senator and likely 2008 presidential candidate:

He also said he strongly supports missions to Mars and that Florida should continue to play a major role in space exploration.

“There’s too much invested there. There’s infrastructure that’s very expensive and very […]

Fringe candidates, fringe issues

Presidential candidates, as a rule, don’t say much, if anything, about space and other issues on the fringe of a campaign—unless, of course, they’re on the fringe themselves. Case in point: Daniel Imperato, an independent candidate for president, issued a press release decrying plans by China and Russia to cooperate on a robotic Mars mission. […]

Gingrich: space development, yes; NASA, not so much

In this week’s issue of The Space Review Gregory Anderson has a short interview with former House Speaker (and potential 2008 presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, as most readers know, has had a long interest in space, which is still the case in the interview, and has been a proponent of more activity by the […]

Looking ahead to 2008

One of the more popular parlor games in Washington these days (well, just about any day) is “Who’s running for President?” Sure, the general election is nearly three and a half years away, but potential candidates are already starting to jockey for position and finding reasons to pay visits to Iowa and New Hampshire. The […]

It’s never too early…

…to start thinking about the 2008 Presidential campaign. (This is not necessarily a good thing.) This week’s issue of Newsweek reports that the “first officially unofficial” Republican candidate may be Newt Gingrich, who has published his “obligatory political manifesto”, Winning the Future. Given Gingrich’s past interest in space policy, I skimmed through the book at […]