Question: Do you believe space exploration is important? How big a priority will NASA be during your administration? What should our focus in space be: medical and scientific research, colonization, a Mars landing, or something else?
Submitted from Alex of Cedar Falls, Iowa through Yahoo! (10/20/00)
Answer from Howard Phillips:
Space Program Related To National Defense Should Be Priority
The only constitutional basis for the involvement of the federal government in the space program is insofar as
that program relates to the common defense of the Unites States of America.
I do believe there is a need for a strong space program which takes into account *higher ground concepts of national security and the need to defend the United States from other *higher ground technologies. That kind of space program merits our urgent support.
Other aspects of the space program are worthwhile but they ought to be funded entirely by the private sector.
* A long time doctrine of military intelligence is to seize the high ground so as to see the enemy, and clearly there can be no higher ground than space.
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