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Article: AIR FORCE FUTURE IN SPACE REMAINS UNDER FIRE.(part 2)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- September 9, 1999
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By David Atkinson
(The second of two articles)
Critics of the Air Force charge that the service's downplaying of space is deeper than lack of support for space programs in the budget process.
The struggle to get space experts into positions of leadership at the Pentagon has been a long and only moderately successful effort, some say. Without strong representation on the air staff, true integration of space has been held back in recent years.
"Even when they get them all the way up there, [ret. Gen.] Tom Moorman is an example of this, he's a lone voice in the wind," said retired Air Force Gen. Howell Estes, a former U.S. Space Command ...