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Trump floats idea of ‘space force’

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March 13, 2018 at 6:52 p.m. EDT
President Trump waves alongside Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt, third from right, and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. second from right, after a signing ceremony last December for Space Policy Directive 1, which aims to return Americans to the moon. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)

President Trump floated the idea adding a “space force” to the country's military in a speech Tuesday at Miramar Air Station in San Diego.

“My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump told the crowd of Marines. “We have the Air Force. We’ll have the space force.”