RE: Trump's Space Command: just another boondoggle or a disaster for space science?
09-04-2019, 02:00 AM
09-04-2019, 02:00 AM
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly. This whole thing reeks of Trump's specific brand of grandiose and ill-advised ideas.
If he gets re-elected, expect him to start hounding NASA about orbital weapons platforms, and damn the treaties that say those are a no-no. Reagan's Star Wars program died for a reason, and it wasn't just the expenses.
And all this money that's going to get poured into this program when, like you said, we have to buy tickets from SpaceX and beg Russia for space available on their launches.... yeah.
If he gets re-elected, expect him to start hounding NASA about orbital weapons platforms, and damn the treaties that say those are a no-no. Reagan's Star Wars program died for a reason, and it wasn't just the expenses.
And all this money that's going to get poured into this program when, like you said, we have to buy tickets from SpaceX and beg Russia for space available on their launches.... yeah.