{"id":366949,"date":"2018-06-27T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/space-command-is-about-to-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T09:42:50","slug":"space-command-is-about-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/space-command-is-about-to-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Command Is About To Launch!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I thought that perhaps I had tuned into John Oliver or to Saturday Night Live in error, but no doubt about it, there was an unmistakable President Donald Trump speaking before an audience at the National Space Council. He was saying that on his own presidential authority \u201cI\u2019m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. \u2026 We are going to have the Air Force, and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before signing Space Policy Directive 3 mandating the change and abruptly departing, Trump went on to explain that \u201cMy administration is reclaiming America\u2019s heritage as the world\u2019s greatest space-faring nation. The essence of the American character is to explore new horizons and to tame new frontiers. But our destiny, beyond the Earth, is not only a matter of national identity, but a matter of national security. It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Air Force, which already has a Space Command, will no doubt object to the new arrangement, preferring instead to roll the expanded responsibilities and money into its already existing framework. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is also reported to be against the expansion, explaining in a speech last year that \u201cThe creation of an independent Space Corps, with the corresponding institutional growth and budget implications, does not address\u2026our nation\u2019s fiscal problems in a responsive manner.\u201d
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