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First Space Force guardian to be launched into space this summer (www.defenseone.com)

submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Guardians” I don’t know how to feel about that.

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah we would scoff at someone calling a soldier "guardian" even if they're fighting for us, so let's scoff at calling space soldiers "guardian" too.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the attempts to distance themselves from the military aspect of it is not really engendering a lot of trust… “He’s going up to do *s c i e n c e,*low gravity research or something, various experiments, don’t worry about it.“