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As someone who spent 20 years working in the US Air Force 'space business' you'd be surprised how much overlap there currently is. Most of Cape Canaveral is run by the Air Force. The adaptive optics used at places like Keck was developed to track and photograph satellites in the 1980s. As for man-rated rockets, you could just re-engineer the current Delta and Atlas heavy lift vehicles. Remember in the 60s, Mercury and Gemini were launched on re-engineered ICBMs. In these days of fiscal constraints using economies of scale might not be all bad
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