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The recently reestablished U.S. Space Command Headquarters has officially been operating out of Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs since Sept. 9, 2019. And this isn’t the first time.
U.S. Space Command was initially formed in 1985 and was in Colorado Springs until its closure in 2002.
But for decades, Colorado Springs continued to conduct space operations globally, 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week, 365 days-a-year. Colorado Springs has had the watch.
Today, Colorado Springs continues to possess the trained military personnel and technical expertise necessary to assume the responsibilities of a Unified Combatant Command for space and the space-related responsibilities previously assigned to United States Strategic Command.
branches, we will have our own representative. it will have its own representative on the joint chiefs of staff. it is a big deal, something a lot of people thought couldn t be done but very important for defense and offense. it is just one way the trumpet ministration is trying to ensure us dominance in space, the white house but up in unified combatant command within the military called us space command. they also announced plans to return american astronauts to the moon by 2024 with the artemis program and now we have the space force. this is a win for the president, one of his top military priorities, one of the biggest applause lines at rallies across the country and now he s going to be able to point to it in 2020 as an example of promises made promises kept.
changed in the last generation. what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and adversarial. reporter: he blames china and russia for developing and testing weapons that can destroy american satellites, the us military and economy depend on, communicating, navigating. our adversaries have been with rising space, we bureaucrats eyes that. reporter: opponents like debra lee james who served in the obama administration argued the president s proposal would only add to the red tape. the creation of a brand-new separate service, brand-new bureaucracy would create such thrashing within the bureaucracy we could lose the positive momentum we have seen over the last several years. reporter: a point gym matis supported last year but has come around and now supports the plan to create a space operations force, unified combatant command space developed and agency for
unified combatant command for space. the united states space command and a space development agency to acquire the latest cutting edge war-fighting capabilities and technologies. finally he wants to create a new political appointee, assistant secretary of defense for space. so all of that is going to mean major changes and major reorganization nation for the u.s. military and the creation of a new space force or corp has been opposed by people in the pentagon. secretary mattis opposed its creation a year ago. his opinion has changed and this week he said that he is on board. we are in complete alignment with the president s concern about protecting our assets in space that contribute to our security, our economy and we ll have to address it as other countries show a capability to attack those assets.