"Shortly thereafter, on 9 June 1959, Herbert York, Director of Department of Defense Research and Engineering, announced that he had decided to terminate the Saturn program. York felt that the DoD should not be funding a booster whose only concrete role was to support a civilian space program." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverstein_Committee
The internet is a direct result of years of hard work by the US military, but nobody calls it a military network. GPS is still run by the air-force but nobody calls there iPhone a piece of military hardware. So, sure NASA used a lot of military know how and plenty of people from the military but it was a civilian agency and focuses on non military applications.
The internet is a direct result of years of hard work by the US military, but nobody calls it a military network. GPS is still run by the air-force but nobody calls there iPhone a piece of military hardware. So, sure NASA used a lot of military know how and plenty of people from the military but it was a civilian agency and focuses on non military applications.