Just food for thought.

Why put people on the Moon as part of a missile defense shield?
When we could have a rover climb into some little bunker/crater
and send back all kinds of infrared and radar tracking data.
Safe, sound and cheap.

This idea crossed my mind only because I ran into
this website below, which curiously has a Mars Rover
on the front page. Notice this agency specializes
in spaced based radar and infrared capabilities.
Why not Moon based too, someday?


SPACE VEHICLES DIRECTORATE PRODUCT LINES

Battlespace Environment - The mission of the Battlespace
Environment Division is to detect and understand the threats
in the aerospace environment to warfighting systems across
the full range of natural and man-made sources, and to
provide active and passive means to eliminate/mitigate
such threats to support Air and Space Forces for
America's Global Engagement."
http://www.kirtland.af.mil/library/f...et.asp?id=7876


Maybe someday Chinese and US rovers will be hiding, hunting
and killing each other in a fight for the ultimate high ground.
The Moon and it's glorious view of Battlespace Earth.

Oh, and how much has the military contributed to the rovers?


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