{"id":180735,"date":"2024-01-17T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-report-calls-for-dod-investments-in-lunar-space-infrastructure"},"modified":"2024-01-17T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T02:22:56","slug":"new-report-calls-for-dod-investments-in-lunar-space-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-report-calls-for-dod-investments-in-lunar-space-infrastructure","title":{"rendered":"New report calls for DoD investments in lunar space infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-report-calls-for-dod-investments-in-lunar-space-infrastructure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. needs to flex its space muscles in the face of China\u2019s lunar ambitions, argues a <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellaerospacepower.org\/securing-cislunar-space-and-the-first-island-off-the-coast-of-earth\/\">new report from the Mitchell Institute<\/a> for Aerospace Studies released Jan. 17.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the U.S. military should step up collaboration with NASA and support the development of infrastructure for scientific and economic activities in cislunar space, \u201cas well as the means to secure those activities from potential threats such as territorial claims and irresponsible or hostile behavior,\u201d writes Charles Galbreath, senior fellow for space studies at the Mitchell Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Cislunar space \u2014 the region of space between Earth and the orbit of the moon \u2014 is becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/to-win-the-new-space-race-nasa-and-the-dod-need-to-shift-their-collaboration-into-high-gear\/\">increasingly important strategically<\/a> and economically due to potential lunar exploration, space mining and other commercial efforts poised to ramp up in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. needs to flex its space muscles in the face of China\u2019s lunar ambitions, argues a new report from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies released Jan. 17. More specifically, the U.S. military should step up collaboration with NASA and support the development of infrastructure for scientific and economic activities in cislunar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}