Militarization and The Moon-Mars Program: Another Wrong Turn in Space?



by Richard C. Cook

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t icleId=4554



Global Research, January 22, 2007









The way NASA has started its new moon-to-Mars exploration program, the
October 2006 White House announcement of a new national space policy, and
subsequent statements by the State Department raise grave concerns about
whether a new push to militarize space has begun. Events are pointing to an
aggressive extension of U.S. supremacy beyond the stratosphere reminiscent
of Reagan administration actions in the 1980s. Then it was the
militarization of the space shuttle and the start-up of the Strategic
Defense Initiative-"Star Wars"-which were gaining momentum until space
weapons technology testing halted with the space shuttle Challenger
disaster.

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Richard C. Cook was the NASA analyst who testified on the dangers of
the solid rocket booster O-ring seals after the Challenger disaster. His
book, Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan
Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, has been
published by Thunder's Mouth Press. Currently he is an independent writer
and consultant, his website is at www.richardccook.com.