Please refer to the https://www.thespacereview.com/archive/4021-1.html (The future on hold: America's need to redefine its space paradigm) to answer the following questions:

1. What is the central point or thesis of this article?

2. In what ways does the author of this article agree with Robert Gordon's theory about economic growth?

3. What does the author believe can restore economic growth to past levels?

4.Who is Dr. Jerome Schnee, and what does his article demonstrate about the space program of the 1960s?

5. How does the author of this article combine his thesis with Gordon's?

6. What does the author say about the decline of Manufacturing in America, and how Space manufacturing can change that?

7. What does author say about Energy Infrastructure, and how Energy from space can change that?

8. Finally, what does the author say about Transportation and how Space travel can enable economic growth in that sector?

9. Why does the author believe that Space Commerce can address wealth inequality?

10. Who is Thomas Piketty, and what does he say about wealth inequality?

11. Who is Joseph Stiglitz, and what does he say about wealth inequality?

12. What does the author say is "contradictory"?

13. How does President Ronald Reagan play into all this? "?

14. What does the author believe are the "four pillars" of the American experience?

15. How does the author believe this will help restore economic growth?

16. Why does the author mention JFK and Lyndon Johnson?

17. What is the author's final point?