Newsmax: Robert Walker: Ted Cruz Will Be a Great Advocate for NASA
Former Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Walker tells Newsmax that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz "will be a great advocate for NASA" as he prepares to head up the Senate subcommittee that oversees the space organization in the newly Republican-led Congress.
"Given his home state and there, we have a lot of the man space operations, which is an area that we're attempting to expand through more commercial activity," Walker, former chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, told J.D. Hayworth and Miranda Khan on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV Thursday.
As Cruz takes over the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space and Competitiveness, the Texas Republican says he wants to see the United States take the lead again when it comes to space exploration and not be so "dependent" on "our international partners."
Walker, who served ten terms in Congress from 1977 until 1997, contends that "to have Ted Cruz advocating in some of those areas would actually put some vitality back into the space program."
