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Article: Military space chief fears shrinking space budgets.(US and Air Force space commands chief Gen. Howell Estes on military space budgets)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- January 9, 1998
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All military space budgets in the next few years may be far too small to handle increasing space demands, according to the head of the U.S. and Air Force space commands.
"I am extremely concerned about [smaller] budgets," Air Force Gen. Howell Estes said in a recent telephone interview with sister publication Space Business News.
Estes' comments came a few weeks after he expressed similar fears about the Air Force budget during a speech to the Air Force Association in Los Angeles.
Also in the interview, Estes made it clear that he understood the nuances of the budget struggles within the Pentagon. But he stressed that all the services that have space ...