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    With Congressional Blessing, Space Force Is Closer To Launch

    by Claudia Grisales Aug 11, 2019 5 minutes
    A ULA Atlas V rocket carrying a U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center mission launched Thursday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    It started as a joke.

    Early last year, President Trump riffed on an idea he called "Space Force" before a crowd of Marines in San Diego.

    It drew laughs, but the moment was a breakthrough for a plan that had languished for nearly 20 years.

    "I said maybe we need a new force, we'll call it the Space Force," Trump said at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in March 2018. "And I was not really serious. Then I said, 'What a great idea, maybe we'll have to do that.'"

    But now, under a new name and with Congress' support, Space Force is closer to becoming a new military reality. It would be the first new military service in more than 70 years.

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