BLUF
The United States must develop military human spaceflight capabilities to counter China’s expanding militarised space programme, which integrates continuous orbital presence, lunar ambitions, and civil–military operations that may threaten U.S. space superiority.Learning Outcomes:
- Recognise the implications of continuous human presence in space for military deterrence and space control.
- Analyse the limitations of current spaceflight structures in responding to adversarial space competition.
