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Tue, 06/19/2018 - 2:50am

President Trump announced on Monday that he has directed the Department of Defense to begin plans to form a U.S. Space Force to stand as a sixth branch of the armed forces. "When it comes to defending America," he said at a meeting of the National Space Council, "it is not enough to have an American presence in space.

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