These go hand in hand. Human spaceflight in the US today is 100% driven by the desire to militarize space. See Gateway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Ga

These go hand in hand. Human spaceflight in the US today is 100% driven by the desire to militarize space. See Gateway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway This is all about supporting military habitation of the moon. This reply seems to assume the argument is against space exploration in total, when it's actually against human space travel. The idea that inter-stellar human space flight should be funded is pretty far out there...