Republicans want to make Avatar a reality. The Tea Party wing declares war on space.

[TheBigotBasher]

This is not the onion.

Plank – Zero-G means Zero-Tax. In order to stimulate the growth of the space economy, the tax code must be amended to exempt from taxation, all business activities related to human spaceflight, including suborbital, low earth orbit (LEO), and beyond.

Plank – The Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) shall continue to be the regulatory agency for private spaceflight, including spaceflight carried out by the private sector for the public sector. NASA shall only have jurisdiction over missions which are exclusively carried out by and for the government.

Plank – Space Property Rights – the US department of State shall be directed to review and amend as necessary applicable international law to ensure the rights of all US private entities are respected, up to and including renegotiation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the 1972 Liability

Convention, and to reiterate US opposition to the 1979 Moon Treaty.

Yep high taxes and illegal aliens from outer space make drilling for whatever minerals difficult.

For American values to spread throughout the solar system, the United States government must strongly support and utilize free-market principles in how it promotes the settlement of space. Government agencies including FAA/AST, DOD (including DARPA), and NASA must become a partner of commercial entities and facilitator of market emergence and growth. These government agencies must also develop sound economic policies for commissioning new missions, project management, and technology development. Robust free-market competition has been objectively shown to be the most cost-effective means of producing and procuring goods and services. Therefore:

Plank – NASA shall, when seeking to develop new space capability, first attempt to do so via a partnership with one or more commercial entities using fixed-price Space Act Agreements (SAA). Failing this, NASA shall still attempt to structure the largest possible fraction of the development as such a partnership. Cost-plus development contracts should be focused solely on specific challenges that are so technically risky and complex that they require this flexibility

Plank – Under no circumstances will NASA use cost-plus contracts for the development of traditional, rocket-based, launch systems.

Plank – Congress shall fully fund, as requested, the next phase of Commercial Crew Development to ensure the successful development of three or more orbital human spaceflight systems. NASA shall commit to purchase follow-on service contracts eliminating reliance on Russia for access to the International Space Station and other missions which take place or begin in Low Earth Orbit.

Yep what those God Hating Pinko Green Aliens from outer space need is good ole tort reform.

Damned right they also need the US medical system of insurance middlemen to function as well as big subsidies to giant conglomerates.

http://www.teainspace.com/platform/

They need volunteers. Can we volunteer these men?

[madrchsod]

1. once again the rethugs have`t a clue about the world around them...

there are already (two?) private companies that are about to go sub orbit. rocket based launch will be obsolete in the near future.