USAF says they aren’t ready to find their Captain Kirk for new “space corps” program – PB/TK
Air Force to Congress: No ‘Space Corps’ – / June 22 2017
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., believes the Air Force is getting in its own way when it comes to advancing space operations.
During the House Armed Services Committee markup hearing of the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act on Thursday, Rogers lamented that the service doesn’t expect to stand up a U.S. Space Corps to better prepare against space threats from Russia and China.
“When I see arguments that we are actually going to set back efforts to respond to adversaries and space threats — well, I’m outraged,” he said.
Within the bill, under “Management and Organization of Space Programs,” lawmakers included a section that “would authorize the creation of a Space Corps within the Department of the Air Force and require the Secretary of the Air Force to certify its establishment by January 1, 2019,” according to the budget document.
But the service maintains it will not stand up a separate branch for space, mainly because of limited resources.
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