For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part - NYTimes.com

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For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part - NYTimes.com:


“I come at space from a standpoint of a romantic belief that it really is part of our destiny,”
Mr. Gingrich said in his speech on Wednesday. He joked about a legislative proposal,
early in his Congressional career, that a moon colony could apply for statehood once its population reached 13,000.

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