Apparently, President Trump is one of my readers: this afternoon, the President issued an executive order charging the Department of Defense and the Pentagon with creating a separate “Space Force.” Trump said that “we must have American dominance in space” (emphasis added).
I wrote about this very topic one week ago today. Excellent move, President Trump. I’m going to push my nephew hard to join our X-Wing Division in 2035.
Here’s a clip of the speech from C-SPAN:
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