While checking out this site, I found this little bit of fun.

"Now the US wants control of space
By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 08/06/2003)

The United States is planning to take control of parts of space and develop patrolling military aircraft in orbit as part of a revived Star Wars proposal for an American military empire above the ozone layer."

I don't doubt that some find it disturbing, but I like it. There will be no leapfrogging over us into space, no Sputnik in this century.

The EU, Japan and China will just have to live with the idea that like the seas and skies, we will own space. It's inevitable.