Donald Trump wants to go to war in SPACE by boosting America’s orbital ‘combat lethality’
The presidential candidate has said he would focus on enhancing the the military arm of the space programme
DONALD Trump has said he wants to improve the US governments ability to wage WAR from space.
The presidential candidate has said he would focus on enhancing the "combat lethality" of the military space programme.
He also said that his administration would examine the spending priorities of the review and "adjust them accordingly" if he came into office.
The Donald has long extolled the virtue's of the space agency saying during a Reddit AMA session in July: “Honestly I think NASA is wonderful! America has always led the world in space exploration.”
He has also described it as "one of the most important agencies of the United States government for most of my lifetime".
However he has also indicated his focus in the White House would primarily be on getting the economy back on track before spending further money on the space programme.
When asked in an interview with Space News about NASA's budget, the bombastic blonde billionaire said their was no way to answer whether or not the agency had an appropriate level of funding.
He then added: "My administration will examine spending priorities and will make adjustments as necessary.
"However, as a businessman, I am mindful of the many benefits, inventions and scientific breakthroughs that would not have been possible without the space program, and that has to be thrown into the calculus, as well."
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Trumps wish to focus on military aspects of the space programme may have sprung from revelations earlier this year the Chinese and Russia were developing "space weapons".
US Admiral Cecil D. Haney, commander of the US Strategic Command told an audience at the the Centre for a New American Security in January: "Adversaries and potential adversaries are developing, and in some cases demonstrating, disruptive and destructive counterspace capabilities.
";Furthermore, they are exploiting what they perceive as space vulnerabilities—threatening the vital, national, civil, scientific and economic benefits to the U.S. and the global community."
The warheads may be being positioned to perform non nuclear surgical strike missions,
The President pledged to work with private companies to "to build new habitats that can sustain and transport astronauts on long-duration missions in deep space".
"We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America's story in space: sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time," Obama said in an opinion piece for CNN.
Obama's comments come ahead of a meeting planned by the White House in Pittsburgh this week aimed at teaming up scientists, students and others to further efforts to develop the commercial space market.
While private companies are already working on missions to space, including t humans have yet to travel to Mars, which is some 35 million miles from our own planet..
Mars has seasons a bit like ours and a 2012 NASA mission found it may once have supported microbial life.
It would take about nine months to get to Mars, depending on rocket velocity, some NASA experts have said.