On Sept. 9, five nuns between the ages of 52 and 73 blazed onto Peterson Air Force Base with the fierce concern of elders who burn with the ancient zeal to teach and caution. In this case, their village is global and reaches to the stars. We reject the U.S. Space Command Vision for 2020 to dominate space for military operations and to exploit space for U.S. interests and investments. But Major Perry Nouis, Deputy Director of the U.S. Space Command Public Affairs Office doesn't condone the Sisters' actions. Until that changes, we've been given our mission.
Space is integral to how the U.S. operates.
Major Nouis argues that those who want national policies changed should direct their protest at the decision-makers above the Air Force. The Sisters had a different idea. After proceeding around the Peterson air show display, looking at all the instruments of death, we came to the F18 Hornet. These members of Plowshares, a religious and pacifist group, had conceived the symbolic disarmament nine months earlier. Major Nouis concurs that economics is the engine driving the train of space expansion.