{"id":629036,"date":"2019-08-29T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629036"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:22:04","slug":"white-house-hopes-revived-space-command-is-one-giant-leap-toward-proposed-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629036","title":{"rendered":"White House Hopes Revived Space Command Is One Giant Leap Toward Proposed Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gettyimages-1169162010_wide-197f139aabfc5348db7fbb5bfa799c6d78cd3cb1.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Pence speaks during a meeting of the National Space Council last week in Chantilly, Va. Pence and President Trump have pushed hard for the establishment of a separate Space Force &#x2014; and they hope the revival of U.S. Space Command will help get them there.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Trump and Vice President Pence are expected to formally reestablish the U.S. Space Command on Thursday. It&#8217;s not the Space Force they want, but they intend it as a step in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/npr-rss-pixel-6.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/08\/29\/755383671\/white-house-hopes-revived-space-command-is-one-giant-leap-toward-proposed-space-?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House Hopes Revived Space Command Is One Giant Leap Toward Proposed Space Force<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Vice President Pence are expected to formally reestablish the U.S. Space Command on Thursday. It&#8217;s not the Space Force they want, but they intend it as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}