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About 1.4 million households used the credit between February (when the program was launched) and September. And from 350,000 to 400,000 of those transactions involved purchases that would not have been made without the credit, says Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors...
...Wednesday, October 28, America once again showcased its dominance in space technology to the world, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration successfully launched its Ares 1-X Rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. Such an achievement augurs well: The new moon program is a shining rebuttal to detractors of America’s math and science programs as well as a promise for progress in American space exploration in the future...
...trouble as a country, we have to compete against the Russians. We have to compete today against the Chinese and Indians who are graduating tens of thousands more very talented science, math, and engineering graduates from their colleges.” The success of the new moon program can now be used by policymakers in arguing for both increasing the number of graduates in the math and sciences as well as improving the quality of those programs...
Gutmann’s words recall the more famous speech by President John F. Kennedy ’40, who argued before Congress at the start of his own moon program that “This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.” As we are currently slated to begin a moon colony in 2020, NASA is making laudable progress in creating the infrastructure needed for it. After the moon colony is established...
...nation’s engineers will get us there. The time, energy, resources, and knowledge expended on the moon program will inevitably have significant payoffs in the math and science sectors of America. The Ares rocket represents a remarkable American engineering marvel, the first of what look like many to come in the 21st century...