ICYMI: The U.S. military has confirmed for the first time that it launched a weapon into space. An Air Force spokesperson told me the space-based weapon is designed to work “against space-enabled attack,” amid threats from Russia and China.
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@zackwhittaker President Kennedy, Sept. 12, 1962: "there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."