Space Force to be the Topic of Next National Space Council Meeting
Space Force to be the Topic of Next National Space Council Meeting
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WASHINGTON - The status of proposals to create a separate branch of the US military dedicated to space It will be the theme of the next meeting of the National Space Council. on October 23.
Vice President Mike Pence, in a tweet on October 12, said the inter-agency group will discuss "the progress made and the next steps" on the formation of a Space Force, a plan officially announced by President Trump at the last council meeting in June.
The president "has rightly asked for the creation of a sixth branch of the Armed Forces to promote US domination in space," Pence wrote. "#SpaceForce is an idea whose time has come." On 10/23, the National Space Council will meet [at National Defense University] to discuss the progress made and the next steps to implement the POTUS vision. "
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.@POTUS has rightly called for the creation of a sixth branch of the Armed Forces to promote United States dominance in space. #SpaceForce It is an idea whose time has come. On 23/10, the National Space Council will meet @NDU_EDU to discuss the progress made and the next steps to implement the vision of POTUS.
- Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) October 12, 2018
In an interview after a round table on October 15 at the ScienceWriters 2018 conference here, Scott Pace, executive secretary of the National Space Council, confirmed that the status of the Space Force planning will be the main theme of the meeting.
"Above all, it will be the Space Force," he said of the next meeting. More details about the meeting will come soon, he added.
The meeting will be the fourth public meeting of the council, as it was formally reinstated by President Trump in an executive order of June 2017. The council held its first public meeting in October 2017 at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian near Washington and the second in February at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It was at the third public meeting, held on June 18 at the White House, where President Trump announced his intention to create a Space Force.. "We're going to have the Air Force, and we're going to have the Space Force, separated but the same, it's going to be something," he said in a comment at the beginning of the meeting. "I am ordering the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces." That process would ultimately require the approval of Congress.
That announcement, while not necessarily a surprise, Trump had reflected on the creation of a separate military branch for space in some previous speeches; however, it angered the military space community, forcing the Pentagon to respond with its proposals to establish a Space Force. One of those plans, in a memo last month by Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, estimated it would cost $ 13 billion in five years to defend the Space Force as a separate branch.
That estimate, which Wilson described as "conservative," led to criticism that Wilson was reviewing the formation of a Space Force. A report earlier this month in Foreign Policy claimed that President Trump was considering firing Wilson. that a Pentagon spokesman dismissed as "meaningless."
That report said that Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and a strong supporter of the Space Force proposal, was being considered a possible replacement. for Wilson. In a recent interview with an Alabama newspaper, Opelika-Auburn NewsRogers seemed to allude to that report while claiming that Wilson had supported the Space Force more.
"The White House discovered that I was working against that, it was a shot on the other side of the bow, and my name was part of the signal for her," he said, adding that he prefers to stay in Congress and seek to become the President of the General Assembly. Committee, a path that depends on the Republicans keeping their current majority in the House.
On another issue, Pace said that the failure of the launch of the Soyuz MS-10 last week, and the impact it has on the operations of the International Space Station, had not yet been raised to the level of the council. "We are reporting fairly well," he said, with updates from NASA. "They look pretty on top of that."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to cover all aspects of the space industry.
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