On October 24, 2024, former NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin joined us to applaud Elon Musk’s SpaceX returning its 233-foot-tall booster to its launch tower, extending Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Single Stage-Rocket-Technology (SSRT), demonstrated with NASA support.

We urge that President Trump’s “Golden Dome” Initiative leverage commercial space technology and realize another SDI vision, a global space-based defense for Americans, our friends and allies. Elon’s DOGE efforts should assess current DoD efforts and consider how current commercially available technology can provide significant cost savings.

Recent debates on space-based missile defense have alleged unfavorable technical feasibility and cost, but these factors were favorably demonstrated three decades ag0. And ignored continuing trends in aerospace economics for commercially based designs promise more favorable shifts in that calculus.

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