WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich is not chagrined over the "Saturday Night Live" mockery of his proposal to colonize the moon. If America doesn't go there, Gingrich said, somebody else will.
"I made a speech on the space coast in Florida to serious people who spent their lifetime trying to help America get into space," Gingrich said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "Every serious analyst understands the Chinese are going all out to dominate space, and the Russians today have the only man-rated vehicle for space."
In January before the Florida primary, Gingrich said that if he were elected president, he'd establish a moon colony by 2020. He suggested the moon could become the 51st state once its population reached 13,000.
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