The Pentagon said Thursday the cost of creating a new Space Force could be less than $5 billion but would certainly be far below an Air Force estimate leaked in September, which projected that creating a separate branch of the military would cost $13 billion over five years.
The $13 billion figure was immediately derided as vastly inflated by proponents of the Space Force, a pet project of President Trump.
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