Trump says he’s directing Pentagon to create a new ‘space force’
Trump has floated this idea before — in March, he said he initially conceived it as a joke — and offered few details about how the force would operate.
(Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg) President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Space Policy Directive-3 next to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, during a National Space Council meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, June 18.