DOD Official: Maintaining Space Dominance ‘Pivotal’ for U.S. Warfighters
March 29, 2019 C. Todd Lopez
WASHINGTON —
The United States was the first — and still the only — nation to put a man on the moon. Nobody will forget that. But come July, that first manned lunar landing will have been exactly 50 years ago.
A lot has changed in space in the last half century, including the number of countries that are capable of putting things on the moon, launching rockets with complex satellites, or building space stations. The United States still has a lead in space, but that might not last long.
Russia and China, for instance, “are looking to asymmetrically undermine our space-based capabilities,†Kenneth P. Rapuano, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security, said at a March 27 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee.
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