Breakdown from the article for people who are lazy.
$19.2 billion for research, development, testing and engineering (RDT&E)
$4.7 billion for procurement
$4.9 billion for operations and maintenance
$1.2 billion for military personnel
It's a LOT of money, doubling the USSF budget from 2021. It's more than NASA's budget in the same year, and a good chunk of NASA's budget goes into aeronautical research. And two thirds of that massive number is going into R&D. That's a huge perk of the Air/Space force split, is that there's now an incredibly well funded US government branch exclusively funding new space tech, and then buying a lot of it too. That's going to dramatically increase the amount of new tech available to everyone as these same companies will reuse what they develop on other satellites.
A lot of that money is going into LEO satellites, and a lot of it into new launch vehicles. There's a huge focus on smaller spacecraft that can be built faster and sent up cheaper, and it looks like micro/picosat constellations are now definitely the way forward.
More funding means more actors in space means more spacecraft means more people involved means growing industry. We're all gonna make it
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Chad Force will get revenge on whoever made them dress like a gay butler
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It's the stupidest fricking uniform I've ever seen in my life. It looks like they brought in the design team
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Like at that point just make them wear Starfleet uniforms and admit it, don't try to dress like in 90s sci Fi show costumes to be different
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they probably did.
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It doesn't have enough shoulderpads and wide boots
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baggy pants in space
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The tailoring is absolutely absurd. What's wrong with a tapered pant? Or if you are going full r-slur just bring back riding pants and jackboots
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