Does the United States government have a top secret space program?

Question

I was wonder if the United States had a secret space program that was more advanced than NASA.

Answer 1

Without a doubt!------- US has always had top secret aircraft (or black projects) in aerospace--- to name a few U2 spy plane, SR71 Blackbird, 117 Stealth, B2 bomber-------- and so forth.

Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/printerfriendly/aviationspace/95e16f096bd8d010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Try this site for lots of pictures of one time secret aircraft and X model aircraft
http://www.unrealaircraft.com/classics/classics.php

EDIT- don't forget they hid the 117 stealth for over 10 years before they showed it publicly.

Answer 2

The military has all kinds of secret space programs. The military spends twice as much as NASA on space. But it is not really more advanced. It is stuff like spy satellites, navigation satellites (GPS is a military program), and star wars. The details are secret but the existence of the programs is not. If there is a super secret program whose very existence is secret, then I don't know about it (because it is SECRET! Duh!). It may exist and may be slightly more advanced, but it can't be much more advanced because the military cannot prevent outsiders from inventing the same things independently, and there are more outsiders than insiders.

Answer 3

The military and intelligence agencies have secret space programs consisting mainly of various sorts of surveillance and communications satellites. They use the same lauch vehicles as everyone else (including the Space Shuttle, at times) but may use classified imaging, encryption, and other technologies not available to NASA.

Answer 4

no.

the nasa consumes so much budget for the space programs but the gain is very little, usually, only knowledge about outer space and the likes, not something that is lucrative.

so if the us government is indeed developing a top secret space agency, to what actually it needs to develop for?

you have had so much of your hollywood dose so it's time to wake up to reality.

Answer 5

I do not know about "more advanced". It does have different goals. The "best-known" (sounds strange to say that about a secret program) is run by the Defense.

They have satellites that travel in tight groups (like small triangles) and use some equivalent to interferometry, to pinpoint positions of ships to the nearest metre or map cities to the nearest rose bud. Google Earth is very crude in comparison.

Answer 6

Yes, they have developed this since the 60's. The hidden black budget has offered the financial resources. They can now travel interplanetary easily, i.e. Mars by bending the time-space continuum, essentially developed by reverse engineering and affiliations with other species more advanced this us. Not to worry though, they won't tell us a thing,

Answer 7

No, there'd be a big drain on the budget somewhere we couldn't account for. Unless they headquartered it in Iraq. But if they did have one, they'd have to recruit astronomers, right? And I've never heard from them.

Answer 8

Does a bear sh*t in the woods? Yes, they do.

Answer 9

ask the Pentagon

Answer 10

Yes, I have always thought so.