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Pretty unlikely- you don't actually need to put people in space for most military purposes, at least not anymore. Most human spaceflight missions can be done fa
by Shawnj2 3y ago
Pretty unlikely- you don't actually need to put people in space for most military purposes, at least not anymore. Most human spaceflight missions can be done far cheaper by not using humans, especially when we have computers and AI as good as we have today. If the military needed humans in space to do something they would probably just have it be a classified part of a normal astronaut's mission or something
- DylanSp 3y agoIt's arguably never been necessary to have humans in space (EDIT: for military purposes). The USAF's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program was cancelled back in the late sixties because even then, reconnaissance satellites worked well enough that the added complexity and cost of a crewed station wasn't worth it.
- Shawnj2 3y agoI think there are real benefits to having people in space for scientific purposes but not really for military ones. Plus a lot of human space travel is preparing for an eventuality that we will have a moon or mars base which will need people to run it.
- DylanSp 3y agoForgot to specify that I meant military purposes specifically, just edited it. I think the necessity of humans for scientific purposes is arguable, but it's definitely not as clear-cut.
- Shawnj2 3y agoIf you assume humans will never live on a non earth planet then it has literally 0 value lol but if we set up a moon or mars base in the future it will hold a lot of value
- edgyquant 3y agoYeah you don’t need astronauts in space, but wouldn’t you want to be prepared to have them way before you needed to
- Shawnj2 3y agoSure, we already have that, it’s NASA. Most NASA astronauts are former test pilots who would have no concerns doing military missions