{"id":35957,"date":"2017-04-07T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/next-job-for-us-air-force-space-cop"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:46","slug":"next-job-for-us-air-force-space-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/next-job-for-us-air-force-space-cop","title":{"rendered":"Next Job for US Air Force: Space Cop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnlw42B5i0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The United States Air Force may become a sort of space cop in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p>An off-Earth economy cannot truly take off unless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/28189-moon-mining-economic-feasibility.html\">moon miners<\/a> and other pioneering entrepreneurs are able to operate in a safe and stable environment, said Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Schilling, of Air University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [U.S.] Navy secures the freedom of action for commerce globally for the good of all humankind, and I think it\u2019s going to take a force very similar to that to provide the predictability and security that the marketplace of space will need,\u201d Schilling said Tuesday (April 4) during a panel discussion at the 33rd National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u201cI think that would be the role of the United States Air Force moving into the future.\u201d [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21588-how-moon-base-lunar-colony-works-infographic.html\">Home on the Moon: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Infographic)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36380-space-economy-security-air-force.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/36380-space-economy-security-air-force.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force may become a sort of space cop in the not-too-distant future. An off-Earth economy cannot truly take off unless moon miners and other pioneering entrepreneurs are able to operate in a safe and stable environment, said Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Schilling, of Air University. \u201cThe [U.S.] Navy secures the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58139,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions\/58139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}