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Time Ripe For U.S. Military To Pursue Fast Access To Space, Experts Say

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Time Ripe For U.S. Military To Pursue Fast Access To Space, Experts Say
An Air Force-industry panel discusses space access at an Air Force Association event on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

Efforts to achieve low-cost, fast access to space for the U.S. military stand to benefit from an increasingly favorable financial, political and technological climate, Air Force and industry experts said May 8.The current willingness of billionaires, such as Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, to invest their own money on space would have been hard to imagine 20 years ago. And their recent success in developing reusable rockets has fueled confidence in the technology. For instance, SpaceX launched…

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