The Ripon Forum
Volume 53, No. 3
June 2019
by LOU ZICKAR
The Ripon Forum commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing with essays by some of the leading experts on space policy today, and a conversation with historian Douglas Brinkley about his new bestselling book.
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by SCOTT SMITH
Who wouldn’t appreciate a leader who has developed a skill for solving problems, bringing people together, forging compromises, enhancing economic opportunities for all, and focusing on real issues as opposed to partisan rhetoric?
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by JOHN BAILEY
With young Americans entering the workforce with a record amount of student debt, it is time for Congress to embrace a plan that could provide them with some relief from this financial burden.
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by KEVIN KOSAR
Like so many aspects of the Legislative Branch, the ability of Congress to enforce a basic responsibility granted it by the Constitution is plagued by dysfunction.
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A conversation with author & historian Douglas Brinkley about the early years of the space program and whether – in this age of debt and dysfunction – it is possible for such a momentous undertaking to happen in America again.
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by FRANK LUCAS
Going back to the Moon isn’t a symbolic effort: we need an American presence there to keep us at the forefront of technological development.
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by ROBERT S. WALKER
NASA must restructure itself as a developer of new space technologies, but it must do so in conjunction with the entrepreneurial space businesses.
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by DAVID A. DEPTULA
Space-based systems are now fundamental to the conduct of war, and the U.S. military cannot fight effectively without them.
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by LOU ZICKAR
While JFK is rightly credited with kick-starting the space program with his bold challenge to land a man on the Moon, it was Eisenhower who started the space program and got things off the ground.
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by Kyle Chance
Millennials differ from previous generations in seemingly every way, but to assume that space exploration has gone out of fashion with young Americans would be unjustified.
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