Put it at Rocket City where the people who built the moon rockets live.
Posted on 03/17/2019 3:41:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham is urging President Donald Trump to consider Louisiana for the future headquarters of Trump’s proposed Space Force.
The Republican congressman wrote a letter to the president , suggesting Louisiana was an "ideal location" because of its strong existing relationships with the military and NASA.
Abraham, who is running for governor, says Space Force would "fit perfectly" at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City. He notes NASA's existing Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans has built components for the nation's space program for decades...
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As a Louisianian, I am OK with this.
Pick deep America, like where James T Kirk was born.
The NASA Michoud contribution was disposable fuel tanks which shed huge chunks of insulation/ice during shuttle launches, caused structural damage, ultimately killed the Columbia’s crew. They are but a short distance from the formerly flooded Jazz Land. This is the fastest subsiding piece of marshland of the entire northern Gulf.
Why put the Space Force under the Air Force Thumb at a Shreveport, La. base?
I’d put it at White Sands or Groom Lake.
Louisiana gets too much rain. A sparsely populated area for actual launches. Or for just assembling the parts try north eastern Alabama.
Nope - Kodiak Alaska. Move the Coasties off their base and set up the Space Force there. There is already a proven launch complex on the island.
Put the COBRA DANE RADER on full time and integrate the BMEWS site at Clear AK into a local surveillance net. Feed the data from these and the SEEK IGLOO system into a FUSION CENTER - and Bam! - ready to go with minimal cost - using assests on hand and working **today**
The Anti-SAT missiles at Ft Greeley (Big Delta Junction) are already in place, manned, trained and ready **today**.
Additional support, if needed, can be supplied out of Elmendorf (JBER) just like the many remote RADAR site that line the Alaska perimeter are supported today.
The Last Frontier can be the Protector of the New Frontier is short order....
“As a Louisianian, I am OK with this.”
There’s little tech/space/military ecosystem in Louisiana.
Unless there’s been big changes I am not aware of in the last decade or so.
As long as it isn’t DC, Los Angeles, New York, or San Francisco.
SpaceX has a new site in southern Texas, about 5 miles from the Mexican border.
I might propose there.
It’s almost totally unbuilt; you could have a yuge base.
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