First and foremost worth mentioning, you are asking this question on a predominantly lefty/pol/ board, a board that is radically liberal. You will not get an answer that is anywhere near unbiased, non anti-Trump, non anti-conservative, or non anti-military. Furthermore, anything even near pro-Trump will be attacked.
Now that that’s been established...
There’s two big things with the Space Force that are a good yield:
>It will have a military budgetAnd according to Trump, equal to that of the Air Force once all branch budgets have been readjusted.
>It may have already existed, and this may be either a revival or a declassificationAs stated in Ronald Reagan’s autobiography, there was a space force.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/exopolitica/exopolitics_reagan05.htmThere’s one source for one quote, and I recall him also making a comment about a specific ship or station where he said something along the lines of, “I’d like to thank our troops up in space for keeping us safe,” which was initially interpreted as him making a comment on the satellites used in our nuclear defence systems. Then of course, there’s always the conspiracy theories about the Solar Warden, but that’s less /sci/ tier and more /x/ tier.
In practical speculation, I’m going to disregard that second point, but it’s still worth bringing to the table.
Now, if a space program was given funding equivalent to the Air Force, that’d be a budget of over 156 Billion dollars. NASA’s budget is only just 18 Billion dollars, which would make the Space Force’s budget 8.6 times higher (which in a way, doesn’t sound like some drastic increase, but is still much better regardless). So just keep that budget in mind. Prices for actually launching craft can also be drastically reduced if we use better fuel sources and methods learned through SpaceX and put them into practice, such as reusable launch stages.
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