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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by DuskStar on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:30PM (#23248819)
> Just a few decades ago the militarization of space was universally acknowledged as inappropriate and this was codified in international law.

That's a hell of an interpretation...

I'd instead say that the world powers recognized that nukes in space would be destabilizing, and banned that specific thing. Space has been militarized since the 60s.

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by nickff on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:32PM (#23249514)
Just to back this up, the Soviets mounted at least one cannon to a space station (Salyut 3 in 1974), and tried to launch an orbital anti-satellite weapons platform (Polyus in 1987).
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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by carapace on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:26PM (#23249455)
There are satellites for watching and communicating, but no weapons.

Of course, actually there are weapons on some of the satellites but everyone pretends that there aren't to maintain stability. Publicly putting weapons in space is destabilizing, stupid to the point of evil.

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Re:Nasa head of human spaceflight resigns days before 'histo... by pyuser583 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:56PM (#23251037)
Since the 50s.
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