The Importance Of The National Space Exploration Program

National defense will always be a priority to the national space program. With critical systems like secure communications, early warning, surveillance, intelligence, reconnaissance, positioning satellites requirements never going away as long as there is a threat to the way we live. Space is the ultimate high ground and the U.S. must maintain its dominance in this domain to stay on top. These systems need to be responsive while at the same time reliable and sustainable. There is however, several obstacles that the U.S. must overcome to maintain its dominance in space from a national defense perspective. Trying to progress in a fiscal constrained environment can be challenging, however, the military has to start looking at this problem …show more content…
In doing so, the military should also leverage civilian, and commercial space industry training opportunities. The space community as a whole should look for out of the box professional education opportunities. This would give both of these opportunities to help shape the knowledge level of the space community as a whole. This would assist with reducing costs and rely on subject matter experts in a specific field.
As the U.S. moves forward with its national space program, the next ten to twenty years will be more important than any other time in history. It is at a pivotal crossroad technologically. The space exploration program is in dire need of a heavy space launch vehicle that will propel the robots and humans for generations to come. Additionally, advancements in technology with human like robots like the R5 "Valkryie" are important for the exploration program. These robots will help the human race explore places and do things the human body can not do. They will also help lower cost overall since the …show more content…
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