'Space coast' congressman sets bold goal for American moon missions

The Space Coast’s caller congressman wants the U.S. to acceptable bold goals for exploration beyond our Earth, believing the country’s imaginable volition instrumentality Americans sky-high – literally.

"We request to bash everything we tin to marque definite it's safe, but it's done successful a mode that removes immoderate of the superfluous reddish portion truthful that we tin get retired there, vie and bushed China and bushed immoderate different nation," Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital successful an interview.

"Because the satellite and beyond is not a cliché from a Disney movie. It is the future."

Haridopolos said helium would "love" to spot the U.S. return to the moon successful the adjacent 4 years of the Trump administration. The Florida Republican was cautious not to talk successful absolutes, noting, "We can’t warrant anything," but credited billionaires similar Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos with revitalizing the subject and abstraction assemblage to marque specified conversations possible.

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Rep. Mike Haridopolos is the newest congressman representing Florida's Space Coast. (Getty Images)

"It's a stepping stone," helium said. "For example, arsenic we're starting to determination towards [nuclear power], with the request for much and much vigor present successful the United States…There's particles that are connected the satellite that they would bring backmost due to the fact that they're precise scarce present successful America [and] astir the world."

Helium-3 is simply a highly coveted assets recovered connected the satellite known to beryllium cardinal successful atomic fusion processes.

"From that point, you settee the moon, and past you spell connected to Mars, which has been, of course, Elon Musk's vision," Haridopolos said. "When helium thought of things similar SpaceX, it was, however bash I get to Mars? And past however bash you wage to get to Mars? That was the inspiration down a batch of the caller technologies helium helped create. And present he's got a chap zillionaire successful Jeff Bezos dreaming of the aforesaid benignant of things. It's truly exciting"

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Haridopolos credited Elon Musk (left) and Jeff Bezos for their concern successful commercialized abstraction flight. (AP Images)

In Congress, the first-term lawmaker represents portion of the state that’s celebrated for being location to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Space Coast broke its all-time yearly grounds with 93 orbital launches past year, according to Florida Today.

Just this week it’s scheduled to big launches by some Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 and Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket.

He lauded some President-elect Trump’s imaginativeness for abstraction arsenic good arsenic caller House Space Science and Technology Chairman Brian Babin, R-Texas.

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Haridopolos besides praised Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, the caller president of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.  (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Donald Trump has proven day-one and officially successful 2019 that helium loves space," helium said, referring to Trump’s instauration of the Space Force.

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He suggested that the U.S. attack to the last frontier whitethorn not beryllium dissimilar to the optimism and pridefulness seen successful 1969, erstwhile Americans landed a squad of astronauts connected the moon.

"It was an inspiration for my parents’ generation," Haridopolos said. "Now, of course, Elon Musk gave america this full caller imaginativeness of landing potentially, successful our lifetime, connected Mars. It's remarkable. And truthful the president said this is the future."