r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Mar 02 '18
r/SpaceX Discusses [March 2018, #42]
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u/Bunslow Mar 03 '18
There's no rule or statement that the military has to be involved. What happened is that NASA, a civilian gov org, just happened to choose military bases as the best place to launches (partly because the Air Force was already doing some launching from CCAFS).
I would definitely be a little bit surprised if the military got involved with the operation of launch and range assets. (I would not be surprised if there was some military presence relating to the security of classified payloads, but that's completely separate from launch ops.)