President Trump will be hosting an event in the Rose Garden at 4 p.m. EST to officially establish the U.S. Space Command. Vice President Mike Pence will also be in attendance.
The command will be operating under the Air Force, with plans expected for it to be its own branch in the future. Its mission, under the leadership of Gen. John Raymond, is mainly to focus on space defense to counter threats from China and Russia.
An original U.S. Space Command was created in 1982 and then disbanded in 2002, when U.S. Northern Command was established.
Raymond will be leading both the Space Command and the Air Force Space Command.
Today @POTUS and @VP will announce the temporary stand-up of U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs at Peterson AFB. This is an important and exciting development for our space warfighters (& bad news for our adversaries). It is past time to reestablish our dominance in space.
— Rep. Doug Lamborn (@RepDLamborn) August 29, 2019
