Cape Canaveral, Fla.

At a rally in the warehouse of Astrotech Space Operations, Mitt Romney told an energized audience about the need to “define a mission” for the American space program. The Obama administration, he said, has failed to define such a mission.

“People are suffering because of that. We’ve lost technology because of that. People have lost jobs because of that. It’s time to have a mission for the space program for the United States of America,” Romney said, speaking just minutes away from the Kennedy Space Center.