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Transcript of "60 Minutes" Air Force Space Command Segment
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Transcript of 60 Minutes Air Force Space Command Segment
by SpaceNews Staff April 26, 2015
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No one wants a war in space, but its the job of a branch of the Air Force called Space Command to prepare for one. If youve never heard of Space Command, its because most of what it does happens hundreds even thousands of miles above the Earth or deep inside highly secure command centers. You may be as surprised as we were to find out how the high-stakes game for control of space is played.
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The Pentagon told us it spends $10 billion a year on space. But we found a White House report that estimates the real cost is much higher $25 billion dollars when you count spy satellites and other classified spending. Thats more than NASA or any other space agency in the world.
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Brian Weeden served as an officer in Air Force Space Command until 2007. Hes now technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation, which promotes the peaceful use of space.
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Transcript of 60 Minutes Air Force Space Command Segment
by SpaceNews Staff April 26, 2015
<snip>
No one wants a war in space, but its the job of a branch of the Air Force called Space Command to prepare for one. If youve never heard of Space Command, its because most of what it does happens hundreds even thousands of miles above the Earth or deep inside highly secure command centers. You may be as surprised as we were to find out how the high-stakes game for control of space is played.
<snip>
The Pentagon told us it spends $10 billion a year on space. But we found a White House report that estimates the real cost is much higher $25 billion dollars when you count spy satellites and other classified spending. Thats more than NASA or any other space agency in the world.
<snip>
Brian Weeden served as an officer in Air Force Space Command until 2007. Hes now technical adviser to the Secure World Foundation, which promotes the peaceful use of space.
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Transcript of "60 Minutes" Air Force Space Command Segment (Original Post)
bananas
Apr 2015
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leveymg
(36,418 posts)1. They want us to spend $100 billion on space weapons.
That's the point of that 60 Minutes episode.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)3. so we need a death star to fight terrorists & pirates who have no air force let alone space program
newfie11
(8,159 posts)2. To bad that can't go to exploring space
We already have enough god awful weapons to annihilate every living creature on this planet 10 times over.