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On the recordJanuary 25, 2012
I do not want to be the country that having gotten to the moon first, turned around and said, it doesn't really matter, let the Chinese dominate space, what do we care? I think that is a path of national decline.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Newt Gingrich warns against allowing other nations to surpass the U.S. in space exploration, framing it as a national decline.

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