"Wdtabor" wrote in message
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Hee Hee.

That is the point. There is no direct reference to space exploration any
more
than there was for exploring the West. But Article 1 section 8, in the
second
to last paragraph authorizes the erection of forts, magazines, dockyards
and
other needful buildings in new territories and earlier for the
establishment of
a Navy.

The FAA and ATC are extensions of the authorization to build Postal and
other
roads and to regulate interstate commerce. We applied the clear intent of
the
Constitution to new technology and situations that were not anticipated at
the
time it was written.

Jefferson saw expansion of the US into the west and exploration of and
securing
those new territories as essential to the defense and security of the US.
I
would agree that holding the "high ground" and strategic advantage in the
new
territories outside the atmosphere as essential to our security as well.
We
will either lead the world or be lead by it.

I don't trust the rest of the world, and I do not want to surrender the
high
ground to the Chinese. If we don't take and hold space, the Chinese
certainly
will.


So space is a new US territory, and we're exploring it for the purpose of
erection of forts, magazines, dockyards and other needful buildings?