I think he wants to put a Trump tower on the moon.

How do we pave the way to new challenges if we don't go for it? It does sound like a crazy idea, I don't disagree with that statement. On the other hand, flying was just as crazy at certain point in the past, wasn't?

I've enrolled in Star Fleet Academy. Just to be ready.

Last I heard, the plan was to sink a couple trillion into the militarization (rather than exploration) of space.

Sure, there would be some incidental spin off benefits, but at what cost? And what could that $$ be used for here on earth? Anything, apparently, but a social safety net or the improvement of anyone's quality of life.

I am not one who thinks nothing should be spent on a civilian space program. I'd like to see 1% of the GDP devoted to it; I think the ancillary social benefits will more than make up for it, and we'd have a decisive exploration program instead of a hit-or-miss gumming around the edges. By all means establish bases on the Moon and Mars. Feed the things we learn back into making Earth a better place. I don't see civilian space exploration as a zero sum game.

But Space Force? No ... just no.

My interpretation of his fantasy is the militarization of space … “the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space.” Narcissitically busting yet another Treaty - Wiki: “The Outer Space Treaty, formally the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, is a treaty that forms the basis of international space law.” This creep is a would-be ‘furor’ of the 21st Century..

Omg .

what President Dunning-Kruger is after is to militarize space. For someone who dodged the draft 5 times with bones spurs & who can pay to keep his own progeny out of harms way, he sure is all gung ho to send other folks kids into harms way.

Waste of money in my opinion.

We already have a space agency, NASA. If we are that desperate to get futuristic why not combine NASA and the Air Force? Apparently we have unlimited funds for defense contractors, and all but the 1% can enjoy cuts in every area that makes life worth living to enrich the war machine and Trump's ego, to fight an imaginary space foe. Ooh, we are surrounded by enemies - we must wall in our borders and let the Russians hack our elections while Nazis march in our streets to keep the nasty immigrants out (unless they are members of the Trump family of course). Looks like the 1% need an escape plan, aka "space force", when they have destroyed our country and our planet so that it is no longer habitable/comfortable for THEM. What about the rest of us? The schools that have budgets being slashed, the middle class that is being bled of our last drop of blood to fund stuff that doesn't benefit us, the youngest and the oldest who can't get health care, the people that make up our families and our friends? Do we get trips to space - or are we to be forced to deal with our bankrupt nation and suffer miserably on a planet stripped down to a smoldering mess while the 1% seek "sustainable profit" elsewhere at OUR EXPENSE? Let private companies pay for their own fantasies - not the American taxpayer.