Agreed. However, NASA is not the agency to implement this interest. Granted, NASA has accomplished some groundbreaking feats. However, it has become a leviathan of waste and misdirection. Hansen is one good example. NASAs whole earth environmental program and associated systems is corrupted with such (just like the CDC and many of their 'health' initiatives such as gun control advocacy because it is a 'disease').
The strategic interest should be left to the military.
the cia has probably been doing this for years....the parts of the third valkyrie were never destroyed, they just diappeared...using a design similar to the x-40, launched from under the valkarie, it is pretty damn feasable for this scenario....