Boots on The Moon Are Going to Have to Wait, Space Force General Says – By Marcus Weisgerber (Defense One) / Oct 1 2020
NASA’s astronaut program is the quickest way to space for military personnel.
There will be no boots on the moon by 2024.
Just days after a U.S. Space Force general said members of the military’s newest branch would one day deploy into orbit, another top general said those days are still far, far away.
“The best and most direct route for any member of the United States Space Force to go personally and physically into space today…remains what it has been for decades,” Lt. Gen. David Thompson, the Space Force vice commander.
That would be an application to NASA’s astronaut program.
“When do we expect to have boots on the moon? No idea. Certainly not in my career,” Thompson said. “[I]s it possible and certainly expected some day in the future that members of the United States Space Force will go physically, directly and personally into space, I would say absolutely.”
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