Low cost access to space is a matter of technological development, not of breakthroughs. There is no intrinsic reason why space lift costs should exceed airlift costs by more than a small multiple, if at all. Space supremacy can be used as a powerful instrument of international blackmail . A vital element of future spacepower will be capability for routine and economical access to space . Summary and Conclusion Technological revolutions have changed the very nature of war in the past.
All services have three megamissions.
Although two of those megamissions involve future operations, each megamission requires actions to be taken immediately. Spacepower will be as decisive in future as airpower is today. Assurance of spacepower in the future requires immediate action to develop the technologies required for economical and routine access to space. USAF must strive to identify and either directly or indirectly assure development of other technologies critical to spacepower. Thor Odinson was the Norse God of Thunder.