[FreedomCalls]

Back in the 80's the Air Force used to have trained crews for classified missions like deployment or repair. Did something change?

Yes. During the Clinton administration, NASA decided that the shuttle would not be used for classified military missions anymore. Only civilian missions.

[tlb]

>>>NASA decided that the shuttle would not be used for classified military missions anymore. Only civilian missions.

Since NASA gets its funding from the federal govt, it doesn't make any decisions unacceptable to said govt. If NASA has gotten out of the military space business, that only says to me there is a working alternative that we don't talk about.