{"id":73809,"date":"2017-11-16T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/air-force-launching-space-force-in-next-3-years"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:02:32","slug":"air-force-launching-space-force-in-next-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/air-force-launching-space-force-in-next-3-years","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Launching Space Force in Next 3 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-launching-space-force-in-next-3-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With China taking a strong lead in the militarization of the Final Frontier, the Air Force has announced it\u2019s time for the US to catch up. Air Force Lieutenant General and President of Air University Steve Kwast says we need to change the way we look at space operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure is not an option\u201d is probably the most famous slogan to come out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/tag?tag=NASA\">NASA<\/a> (apart from the closely related \u201cHouston, we have a problem\u201d). Those were the 1970s, though\u2014this is a new age, with new rules. And according to Kwast, one of those rules should be \u201cfail-first, fail-forward.\u201d Even with rockets.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of a new proposal Kwast is pushing called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airuniversity.af.mil\/Portals\/10\/Research\/documents\/Space\/Fast%20Space_Public_2017.pdf?ver=2017-03-10-113507-743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast Space: Leveraging Ultra Low-Cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/tag?tag=Space\">Space<\/a> Access for 21st Century Challenges<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science\/item\/17092-air-force-space-program\">https:\/\/www.outerplaces.com\/science\/item\/17092-air-force-space-program<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With China taking a strong lead in the militarization of the Final Frontier, the Air Force has announced it\u2019s time for the US to catch up. Air Force Lieutenant General and President of Air University Steve Kwast says we need to change the way we look at space operations. \u201cFailure is not an option\u201d is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73809","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=73809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}