Two themes: degraded space capabilities and unit level operations.

Given a few thousand years we will have developed deep space capability and probably will be gone from Earth.

They had some space capability, but not enough to move a total population.

Disabling the Hiver colonies could merely mean making certain they had no further space capabilities.

Focus: To increase utilization of space capabilities for services to man.

We had only one world then, and very limited space capability.

"Granted we'd never encountered an alien culture with a space capability, Sol believed the coincidence too much."

I really don't have much space capability left.

This made China the third country in the world to have indigenous manned space capability.

It might work again, particularly for those races with some space capabilities.