Lt. Gen. Steven L. Kwast, Commander of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command, speaks to Air Force scholars about America’s spacefaring future and the national security demands this is now making on the U.S. military.
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Bottom line: Outer space has now become a “battleground” for the world’s future Great Powers to seek their place. The United States has let its substantial spacefaring lead—achieved in the 1960s—languish. Other nations seek to take advantage of this. The circumstances are not dissimilar to those of the 1930s. America’s transition to a true spacefaring nation must now accelerate.
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Mike Snead is a professional engineer and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is president of the Spacefaring Institute™ (spacefaringinstitute.net) and writes this Spacefaring America blog. He has formed the LinkedIn group Space Solar Power to advocate for space-based sustainable energy and the coming American spacefaring industrial revolution. He can be reached through the contact form or through LinkedIn. His technical papers are available here.