Will Mitt Romney Fire Space Advisor Michael Griffin For Proposing Permanent Moon Base?

While speaking to Global Space Exploration Conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, Romney Space Advisor Michael Griffin renewed his calls for a “permanent base on the moon.” Given Romney’s promise to fire anyone who proposed putting a colony on the moon, will Romney keep his promise by firing Griffin?

* “I spent 25 years in business. If I had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I’d say, ‘You’re fired,'” – Mitt Romney [CNN Republican Debate, 1/26/12; CBS, 1/26/12]

* Former NASA Administration Michael Griffin was named to Romney Space Policy Advisory Group. [Romney for President, Leaders in America’s Space Program Write Open Letter, 1/27/12]

* “In order to extend human exploration, fly beyond the earth and have a presence in the solar system, the next step in doing that would be to have a permanent base on the moon.” – former NASA Administration Michael Griffin speaking at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Global Space Exploration Conference on May 22nd, 2012.

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