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February 12: Trump budget would privatize US
space station operations
The administration wants to focus on exploring deep space — sending people back
to the moon and perhaps beyond. The budget proposal calls for $10 billion to
"support human space exploration and to pursue a campaign that would establish
U.S. preeminence to, around, and on the Moon."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/12/technology/future/nasa-budget-commercial-space/index.html
March 13: Star Wars? President Trump
Proposes Military Space Force
President Trump says Tuesday he wants a military space force that would be the
orbital equivalent of the Army, Air Force and Navy.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-03-13/star-wars-president-trump-proposes-military-space-force
March 14: Spending a year in space not only
changes your outlook, it transforms your genes.
Preliminary results from NASA's
Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes did not return
to normal after his
return to Earth two years ago.
The study looks at what happened to Kelly before, during and after he spent one
year aboard the International Space Station through an extensive comparison with
his identical twin, Mark, who remained on Earth.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/health/scott-kelly-dna-nasa-twins-study/index.html
March 15: No, space did not permanently
alter 7 percent of Scott Kelly’s DNA
There’s a lot of miscommunication going around
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/15/17124312/nasa-twins-study-dna-scott-kelly-international-space-station
August 7: Satellites make much of modern
warfare possible, through GPS systems, wireless communications and sophisticated
weather forecasting. This makes satellites tempting military targets. The U.S.
Air Force is now responsible for defending American satellites and spacecraft
and wants to continue to do so. But President Donald Trump says the perils
require a new military branch, which has come to be known as the Space Force.
Critics say this would just add bureaucracy and costs. Supporters say a new
military branch is needed to prioritize U.S. defenses for the next battlefront.
http://fortune.com/2018/08/07/what-is-space-force-trump/
August 11: Stephen King Causes Meme Meltdown
With Trump ‘Space Force’ Twitter Request
That escalated quickly.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-king-donald-trump-space-force_us_5b6e90c8e4b0ae32af9843f7
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August 13: It's 2018, so of course Twitter
is taking yet another one of President Donald Trump's plans and transforming it
into a hilarious trove of memes. This time, people are poking fun at the
president's proposal to create a Space Force, and the
memes about Donald Trump's Space Force are pure perfection. What a time to
be alive.
Trump first made the call for a Space Force — a proposed sixth branch of the
U.S. military — back on March 13, during a
visit to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. Trump told an
audience of Marines in a speech that he believes U.S. forces will eventually be
fighting wars with other countries in outer space (to much backlash)
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/the-memes-about-donald-trumps-space-force-are-pure-perfection-10099383
August 16: GOP divide emerges over Trump's
Space Force
https://www.foxnews.com/us/gop-divide-emerges-over-trumps-space-force
August 17: Mysterious Russian satellite
worries experts
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/08/16/russian-nesting-doll-satellites-todd-tsr-vpx.cnn
August 21: Senate emerges as
obstacle to Trump’s 'Space Force'
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/402748-senate-emerges-as-obstacle-to-trumps-space-force
September 17: Trump's Space Force could cost
nearly $13 billion over 5 years
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/17/politics/trump-space-force-cost/index.html
September 17:
Trump’s Space Force struggling to launch
A bipartisan group that includes generals and lawmakers fears that carving the
new branch out of the Air Force would siphon resources from other programs and
weaken the military.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/space-force-military-air-force-825757
September 17: Air Force Pushes Back
on Pentagon’s First Blueprints for Trump’s Space Force
https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2018/09/creating-space-force-will-cost-13b-over-5-years-air-force-secretary/151312/
September 19: Trump's Space Force proposal is a 'bold idea,' but the
US already dominates outer space, Air Force secretary says
"The Air Force has a lot of authorities now to continue to accelerate defendable
space so that we dominate and win," Wilson said. "We're the best in the world at
space. Our adversaries know it, and they're developing the capabilities to deny
us the use of space in crisis or war and we are determined that that not be
allowed to happen."
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/09/19/air-force-sec-wilson-space-force-could-cost-13-billion-over-5-years-space-force.html
October 1: Pentagon officials accused of
artificially inflating costs to scuttle Trump priorities
Public opinion turned against military parade, Space Force after high cost
estimates
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/1/trump-space-force-parade-scuttled-inflating-cost/
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October 4:
Trump Considers Firing Air Force Chief Over Space Force Pushback
The president appears to be tired of Pentagon officials slow rolling his
orders.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/04/trump-considers-ousting-air-force-head-over-space-force-pushback/
October 20: Trump space force plan is
grounded in real needs, but hazy
Some may think it would assemble a razzle-dazzle new army for the heavens that
would deploy soldiers in space or arm astronauts with galactic superweapons.
Analysts say the reality is that building space muscle is more about reordering
the way the Pentagon already uses space than about combat.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/10/21/trump-space-force-plan-is-grounded-in-real-needs-but-hazy/
October 23: The National Space Council on
Tuesday served up six recommendations to
President Donald Trump to
enable the creation of a Space Force, moving the birth of a sixth military
branch one step closer to fruition.
Vice President Mike Pence, who chairs the council, said he anticipated that
President Donald Trump
will likely take action on at least some of the recommendations very soon.
https://www.defensenews.com/space/2018/10/23/pentagon-presents-recommendations-on-space-force-to-trump/
October 27: Trump's Space Force is moving
forward. Here's what you need to know
The Trump administration sees space as a war-fighting domain, and it wants the
US to be ready.
The US military has been actively involved in space activities for decades. In
the 1960s, at the same time that
NASA was working toward a moon landing, the Air Force even had a parallel
manned space program with its own astronauts, although none of them ever
launched, as far as we know.
Today, a significant portion of US military activities tied to space resides in
the
Air Force Space Command, headquartered in Colorado, with over 30,000 people
worldwide and launch facilities in Florida and California. The command handles
missions that include satellite communications, missile warning systems, global
positioning systems, surveillance of space, and other projects like the
secretive X-37B space plane.
https://www.cnet.com/news/trump-space-force-is-moving-forward-heres-what-you-need-to-know/
December 3: Nearly two months after a rocket
malfunction forced NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos to
abort the launch of a Soyuz mission, a new crew blasted off on Monday for
the International Space Station.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, American astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian
astronaut David Saint-Jacques successfully launched at 6:31 a.m. ET from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and went into orbit a short time later.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/03/672838733/soyuz-rocket-launches-successfully-to-relief-of-nasa-russia-space-agency
December 13: Virgin Galactic Makes Historic
Trip To Edge Of Space
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/13/676436669/an-indescribable-feeling-virgin-galactic-makes-historic-trip-to-edge-of-space
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May 24:
Elon Musk Says It's 'So Far, So Good' for SpaceX's 1st 60 Starlink
Satellites
SpaceX's internet-satellite megaconstellation appears to be off to a good start
in low-Earth orbit.
The first 60 members of the company's Starlink network
launched last night atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The satellites deployed
smoothly about an hour after liftoff, and they came online shortly thereafter,
SpaceX founder and CEO
Elon Musk announced via Twitter last night.
Musk gave us another update this afternoon tweeting "So
far, so good" in response to a follower's question about Starlink's
status.
"Krypton thrusters operative, satellites initiating orbit raise every 90 mins,"
he added in another tweet a bit later. (The satellites deployed at an altitude
of 273 miles, or 440 kilometers, and are making their own way to their
operational altitude of 342 miles, or 550 km).
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-says-spacex-starlink-satellites-doing-well.html
-- 2020 --
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