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‘Space Corps’ gets OK in House committee’s NDAA markup
The House Armed Services Committee has approved a new military branch for space.
By Joe Gould
Trump’s new Space Force to reside under Department of the Air Force
The new service will be overseen by the newly created undersecretary of the Air Force for the Space Force and a Space Force chief of staff, who will sit on the Joint Chiefs.
By Valerie Insinna
Space Force could cost fraction of Air Force estimates
A defense budget analyst thinks the Air Force overestimated the cost of standing up a new space service. Here are his numbers.
By Valerie Insinna
Midterms could crash Trump’s Space Force on the launch pad
President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to start work on a new, sixth military service dedicated to space, but that seems unlikely if Democrats take the House in the midterms.
By Joe Gould
Pentagon lays groundwork for Space Force to blast off in 2020
The U.S. will also create an independent unified combatant command.
By Valerie Insinna and Tara Copp