Space dominance

Losing U.S. dominance in space could have wide-reaching effects, American officials fear, from limiting the ability to guide ships, foot patrols, manned jets, drones or missiles toward precision targets, to communicating with and saving wounded soldiers in the deep hinterlands of the Afghan Hindu Kush mountains, to more benign matters, like disrupting GPS systems that direct millions of American commuters and support domestic farmers who rely on them to steer combines in perfectly straight lines and maximize their crop yields.

From Trump meeting with DOD.
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Consider Obama & Bush went a long way to damage our needed capability by killing Shuttle! All experts said keep Shuttle until a replacement is available. Congress participated in this !

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EO control

DOD , trump meeting

The debate centers on the 73 trillion cubic miles spanning everything from a few hundred miles above the Earth's surface to the farthest reaching satellites 22,000 miles out. It's a domain over which the U.S. claims it must continue to be the principal governing power if space is to remain a peaceful commons. And it involves both protecting orbiting U.S. assets as well as ensuring the safety of the vital military and commercial information they convey to Earth.
The coming war in Space, us&wr


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War in Space: How the U.S. Prepares for the Next Battlefield | World | US News

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-02-08/war-in-space-how-the-us-prepares-for-the-next-battlefield


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External NASA Watchdogs Raise Safety Concerns About Manned Space Missions - WSJ

External NASA Watchdogs Raise Safety Concerns About Manned Space Missions - WSJ

Strange, NASA overemphasized safety when they killed shuttle---now went to cheap cots --- worried about safety--- a little late---look at time wasted-- gross!bm

https://www.wsj.com/articles/external-nasa-watchdogs-raise-safety-concerns-over-manned-space-missions-1452825658

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The Space Review: It’s vital to verify the harmlessness of North Korea’s next satellite

We better control EO!

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3164/1


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Why the Moon Matters | U.S. House of Representatives

http://bridenstine.house.gov/blog/?postid=772


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Last Shuttle flight was 2011

LAST Shuttle flight 2011---Remember Kraft's warning re ISS support W/O Shuttle !

Firm Commercial Crew Flight Dates Remain Elusive

By Keith Cowing on January 29, 2017 8:22 PM. 29 Comments 

Technical troubles likely to delay commercial crew flights until 2019, Ars Technica

"Boeing has set a "no earlier than" date of August 2018 for its first crewed test flight, and SpaceX has targeted May 2018. But those dates seem optimistic. Ars spoke to a handful of sources familiar with the commercial crew program this week, and all expressed pessimism about the public timelines the companies have for reaching the launch pad. According to this unofficial analysis, even a single crewed test flight in 2018 by either company now appears unlikely, as teams from both Boeing and SpaceX continue to work through significant technical issues."

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