I’m just going to toss out this bit of current affairs out there and note that, while this story itself is (barely) not political, virtually all of the fallout is going to be: “As part of its version of the 2018 Defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee voted late Wednesday night to create a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces: the U.S. Space Corps, which would absorb the Air Force’s current space missions.” Go look up the names of everybody in that article who is talking about it, if you’re not wise in the way these things go. Anyway: yes, we’re overdue for a branch of the military dedicated to space. We are massively overdue for one*.
Via Glenn Reynolds.
Moe Lane
*Full disclosure: my wife is a civilian engineer working for the Department of Defense, in a capacity that is relevant to this story.