Yes, I hope it is commerical and not government, it will open a lot of jops for people, and I hear from the Discovery Chanel (nerd here) that there is a company that is looking in to space flights for vacations
I hope that works for them, and the cost get down so I can do something like that in my life. Also oddly the Army has a bigger space program than the Air Force, just the Air Force is more know cause of what they do, the Army did the Space Stattion and the "Missile Defense Satellites" most of what the Army is doing in space is "Defense"
First off, the Army most certainly did not do the International Space Station. Which is a civilian operation ran by NASA.
And I'm pretty sure Air Force Space Command has a lot more equipment in space than the Army does. We've got the GPS constellation which has 31 satellites, the Defense Satellite Communications System constellation which is another dozen (This constellation the Army does actually have a hand in helping to run), six in the Milstar constellation (That's another communications network), the DSP constellation (Which is the of the missile defense constellations) has at least a dozen, and a couple other constellations I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Unless you mean another missile defense constellation I'm unaware of- I'm pretty sure they didn't do that either. For the record, Army Space Command is located on an Air Force Base. While Army Space and Missile Defense command consists of a few brigades, AFSPC is the size of around four divisions. Mind you, the Army does have a couple of labs dedicated to developing things to put on satellites.
That said- actually going into space is a much more technically oriented thing now a days than it once was. And AFSPC, while conducting several launches a year, launches satellites only. Manned space flight for the US is a NASA thing- admittedly with a good number of military personnel taking part. If you seriously want to go into space, the military probably isn't the way to do it. Unless as a pilot, you are literally the best at everything- ever. Your honest to goodness best bet? Find an engineering pursuit that's space related, and work your ass off in that field.
As for landing in a carrier- I'm fully confident of my ability to take off under my own power, land in a crosswind, and flare.
