13,527 people.

FY 2023 Budget: 26.3 BILLION

NASA FY 2023 budget: 25.4 Billion.

Personnel: 18,000+

While that is an amount of money I genuinely can not fathom, it somehow seems like a drop in the bucket for the budget of something called US Space Force

It’s a lot of money. Season one was pretty dumb but somewhat funny. Netflix should be able to do something amazing with 26B

Keep in mind that a lot of the Space Force was consolidated from stuff the Navy and Air Force was already doing. They just took those jobs and placed them under the purview of the newly created Space Force

The Space Force has it's own new initiatives too, but a good chunk of that money was already allocated to projects that were already budgeted for but being operated by the other branches

Would Space Force be a shortcut for a regular, out of shape, high school grad to get into space?

Not really. The Space Force won't be sending people into space for decades. For military purposes, uncrewed is the way to go.

Being in the Space Force might help you eventually transfer to NASA's astronaut program, but you'll still need all the regular qualifications of a NASA astronaut.

So not fat, out of shapers like myself. Oh, well.

If you watch Gen Saltzman's confirmation hearing, he even backtracked on the... "different health and fitness standards" initiatives.

He basically said that we're small enough that we can look at them on a case by case basis, and he sees no desire to make sweeping changes.

I dream of being the fattest person in space someday.

Don’t let the dreams die, bro.

More to the point, in accordance with national policy, NASA is responsible for US government human spaceflight, so no combat boots on the moon.

This is the saddest thing I’ve read all day