Fast-forward to 2012 where the new Newt Gingrich thinks NASA should spend 10% of its budget on prize money for competitions between private companies, spurring a sort of private-enterprise space race. These private space entrepreneurs are our best hope for moon colonization, Gingrich argues, not big expensive NASA projects.

This is a good idea. I like that Newt is so gung ho about space exploration & all, but cmon, he’s still Newt Gingrich.