NASA doesn't need uniforms and ranks it need a bigger operating budget!
NASA Corps?
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Na, they need to get rid of it and open space to private enterprise.
Errr... Why?
Cool, still....why?
What advantages would an organisation with a military style chain of command have over the current NASA administration?
Space is perfectly open to private enterprise - numerous private companies are working on space flight, there is no-one stopping private companies from investing in space.
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Smells too much like the militarization of space which would be against the Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 which specifically prohibited the use of outer space for anything other than peaceful purposes and does NOT allow military maneuvers.
I think that treaty needs to be tossed out the airlock, IMHO.
It is the biggest thing in the way of corporate expansion in space right now, also expansion has always been in conjunction with the expansion of the military into an area.
We should be militarizing and privatizing space.
Expansion into space means everyone wins.
Nations can nuke us from the ground, sea, and air. I fail to see how space is so much more dangerous.
Not if the use of satellite- and spaceship-killers leaves so much debris in LEO that it's no longer safe to pass through it. At present, very few satellties break up in orbit, rather than burning up during re-entry. If you get weapons in space, used against the enemy's satellites, then it happens a lot more often, and eventually there's so much up there collisions with orbiting debris become likely rather than rare.
And it would, it's been worked out, take a surprisingly small amount of orbital debris to reach that threshold, because you get a chain reaction effect once the amount of debris up there passes a certain point.
Run this through: one satellite is attacked and breaks into (say) 1000 dangerous specks; 1% of them hit other objects in orbit - that's 10 of them - which also break into 1000 pieces, so that's already 10,990 pieces of debris, and if 1% of them repeat the pattern next time round you're past a million little 'bullets' by the next stage, and billions after that...
The actual figures are more complex, of course (less odds of a collision, but more fragments), but it shows how fast the snowball could build (it's even been suggested, in one of Ken MacLeod's SF novels, as a technique that terrorists could use as a weapon to neuter the superpowers, by denying them access to space).
no. no no no no no. NO. Horrible idea. As someone currently serving in the Army I can say without a doubt that such a move would be a disaster. Culturally, the branches are way to different to work properly as a unified force. Right now the branch that is the closest to the US Army is the USAF and even then there are just too many difference (from living condition standards to how to conduct physical training). I should also add that the creation of the one branch Canadian military was hardly a popular move. I can just imagine the clusterfuck created by the unification of the branches *shudder*
From wiki
"Dr. Woodworth organized the Marine Hospital Service medical personnel along Army military structure to facilitate a mobile force of health professionals that could be moved for the needs of the service and country. He also established appointment standards and designed the Marine Hospital Service herald of a fouled anchor and caducus. In 1889, Grover Cleveland signed an Act into law that formally establishes the modern Public Health Service Commissioned Corps."
Anyways, as to making NASA an organizationw tih military ranks and structure, I think it wouldn't make much a difference. That said, i do believe making the Air Force responsible for space exploation might be a good thing. As it is, we're pretty much exploring space for the sake of exploring it. If there is an actual tangible goal, such as the development of space based deployment of military forces, then we will probably see alot more advancment in space technology. Afterall, it worked with rocketry, naval technology, and air craft technology.
It's the only way to be sure.
Personally I'd like to see Squiggy in a uniform*. Then he can sport his "Neil Armstrong spoke to ME" medal on the lapel.
*yes yes not NASA really I know
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