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- From: rbunge@access.digex.com (Robert Bunge)
- Subject: GOP space platform text
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.210901.23312@access.digex.com>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:09:01 GMT
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- As received by FAX from Houston:
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- GOP Platform on Space
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- We are a pioneer people. Today's telecommunications revolution
- began with the first satellites of the Eisenhower years. So too,
- what we now do -- or fail to do -- in space will determine the
- future for generations to come.
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- That is why President Bush established the National Space Council
- under Vice President Quayle. Together, they rescued a floundering
- space program, revamped NASA, opened up competition, and engaged
- the best minds of academia and research in a twofold mission for
- mankind. Mission to Planet Earth will define and perhaps mitigate
- effects on our fragile environment. Mission from Planet Earth will
- open space for science and industry.
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- Especially in this Columbian year, we hail the President's decision
- "to return to the moon, this time to stay, and then a journey to
- tomorrow, a mission to Mars."
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- Investments in space, though aimed at the future, pay dividends
- right now -- in research and medicine, in international
- competitiveness and domestic opportunity. This must not be diverted
- to political pork barrels. The journey to the stars used to be a
- bipartisan adventure, but many Democrat officeholders have jumped
- ship.
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- Republicans, by contrast, are determined to complete Space Station
- Freedom within this decade. Our agenda is to lower the cost of
- access to space, and to broaden that access to the private sector,
- with a family of new launchers; to build and fly sensors for the
- global environment; and to advance cutting-edge capabilities like
- the National Aerospace Plane and single-stage-to-orbit rockets, so
- technological breakthroughs can be quickly exploited. We will
- promote space-based enterprise, not a restricted preserve for
- government. We will continue international cooperation in space
- ventures and welcome Russia's cosmonauts and citizens of other
- nations to fly for freedom.
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- Bob Bunge
- rbunge@access.digex.com
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