President Trump’s vision of a new Space Force military service went from off-the-cuff public remarks to Pentagon policy in just five months.

The president has charged the military with carrying out one of the most profound changes in its organizational structure since the Air Force was created in 1947. But ultimately Congress will decide whether Trump’s plan achieves lift off or comes crashing back to Earth.

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