Over at National Review Tuesday, I report on an unexpected question from the local press to former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on space policy last night.  As I note over there, it caught all of the other candidates off guard, but Newt was happy to knock it out of the park, as no doubt the questioner hoped he would do.

Newt is almost certainly the most informed candidate on this issue, having been personally  interested in and involved with space policy for over three decades, though most don’t realize it.  He was a rare Republican voice of reason last year when he jointly published an op-ed with former U.S. Rep. (and chairman of the House Science Committee) Robert Walker (R-Pa.) supporting the Obama administration’s new space policy.