Newt Gingrich and President Obama Agreeing?

Less Government, emphasis on more commercial services. This is what President Obama proposes in the new NASA budget. It is a great idea whose time has come. Recommended many times by bipartisan committees and boards but ignored by NASA, this change of emphasis for NASA allows greater exploration and less of the "grunt" work of space travel. That is largely the transporting of equipment and supplies into low orbit. With the closure of the Space Shuttle program the lift capacity of this country is greatly reduced. Russia will be utilized and not to leave us dependent on the Russians, NASA has been using commercial launches for years.
Commercial launches will open space to many more people and result in jobs that our future can be built around. This is a jobs program with lasting effect like the Apollo project, which produced many commercial benefits. Not just products like Velcro but engineers and an increase of knowledge still being exploited today around the world,
By getting out of the low orbit business NASA is free to do what it was designed for: Exploration.
The low orbit world has become a business zone and NASA should willingly walk away to greater things. In the final frontier, the exploration of space, it seems there can be real bipartisanship if President Obama and Newt Gingrich agree. Health Care Reform in Space?