Man, I totally want Space Force to happen! We'll have lasers, and force fields, and space torpedos! It will be awesome!
What this country really needs to get the Space Race restarted is for China or Russia to go plant a flag on Mars and (illegally, I guess) claim it for their own, so the US has to send out Space Force to take the flag down and plant an even Bigger Flag in it's place. 'Merica ain't letting no damn commies take over Mars!
It will be like 1800's colonialism all over again, except this time we'll be fighting over parts of Mars instead of Earth!