Re: What was .... *ponder* ...
The space force is just so the airforce and Navy don't fight over who gets to run GPS - the Navy invented it but the USAF claimed it went up and was therefore theirs.
>A tiny space agency with no ability to self launch anything into orbit.
They just need some DEI DIE, specifically die Raketenwissenschaftleren
>A medium space agency with their own space crafts to launch objects into low earth orbit.
Were NASA ever building their own space craft? The Redstone arsenal days were before NASA and the Mercury->Apollo era rocket hardware was built by the military-industrial complex
>A large space agency who landed the first humans on the moon!
That was probably it's downfall. Creating a giant crash "Manhattan Project" and then being left with a large sprawling agency with too many sites and a need to pork barrel and politic to keep it running. leading to a search for a big enough project to justify all this ie. the Space Shuttle
From a scientific point of view getting rid of SLS, Artemis and pointless 'square jawed test pilots" back to the moon (even if this time they are female/black/marines or other minorities) - would leave money to spend on actual science. Of course it won't because the purpose of NASA is to prop up Boeing / Lockeed-Martin / Northrop-Gruman