Current and Future Military Uses of Space

The civilian space program is a cultural activity, designed to express people’s sense of adventure, the progress of technology, and national prowess. Eco-nomic or scientific utility is not the standard applied in designing the civilian space program, despite some hopeful talk about growing crystals and per- forming electrophoretic separations at zero g. The military space program iscompletely different. In our military program, the benchmark of success is not technological advance or novelty, but military capability and related na- tional security.