United States. The decades-long dispute between the US Navy, Army, Air Force, and civilians (NASA) over space launches rages on. The US Navy tends to view satellites as another form of submarine and missiles as protection for its fleets; the US Army views missiles as a superb form of artillery; the US Air Force views missiles as extreme aircraft flown by expert pilots. Congressional lobbyists for the US Air Force even coined a term that remains in vogue today, “Aerospace,” to demonstrate that the two concepts are intimately linked.
