"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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On 7/5/2010 2:31 PM, John M wrote:

The Air Force has clearly recognized that unmanned is their future.
It's time NASA admitted the same. I've got nothing against the
ISS, but mining operations on the Moon and asteroids is just plain
idiotic. How much would it cost, and how long would it take to
build a factory beyond low orbit? Too much.

Oh, the military would be back into manned space in a minute if someone
threw the money at them to do it.
Remember "Hot Eagle" and SUSTAIN?:
http://defensetech.org/2005/09/19/ma...in-spaaaaaace/


Pat


I bet there's no shortage of things the military would like to build.
I found this UAV roadmap from the Dod. More remote control planes
than you can shake a stick at. It appears all those local 'model
airports'
around the country are secretly run by Darpa~
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/colle...oadmap2005.pdf