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The military uses of space 太空军事用途 Spooks in orbit 轨道间谍卫星 The other space programme 另类太空计划 DESPITE its strong inheritance of military DNA, 尽管美国航空航天局有着浓重的军事血统， NASA is a civilian agency, 但它仍然是一间民用机构。 set up that way in deliberate contrast to the military-run Soviet space programme. 它的组建方式也刻意与苏联军事太空计划形成对比。 In practice, the distinction is not always so clear-cut: 但实际上，二者之间的界线通常并不那么分明: NASA has done plenty of work for the Pentagon. NASA也曾为五角大楼做过大量工作。 But America s armed forces maintain a separate space programme of their own, 但美国军队却保持着自己独立的太空计划， largely out of the public eye. 大多数不为公众所知。 Although hard numbers are difficult to come by, 尽管确切数字难以获得， it is thought that the military space budget has matched or exceeded NASA s every yearsince 1982. | 
