[ExI] Should the US Have a Military Presence in Space?

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2018 8:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Should the US Have a Military Presence in Space?

 

>…The Air Force doesn't build its own planes, missiles, or any of that.  I fail to see what a Space Force would actually build that the Air Force does not now build.  (Small test satellites, maybe.  Large satellites or spacecraft, or launch vehicles, no.)  Adrian

 

 

 

Why not?  I know they don’t now, but why not?

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


>>…My conclusion: about in 2009, the military decided it wanted to have its own people doing a lot of what the aerospace biggies had been doing for decades.  And why not have the military do it?  Why not have the military people building all its own stuff?  Why do we need aerospace companies doing that?

spike

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