{"id":61724,"date":"2019-08-29T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-u-s-space-command-opens-shop\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:21:00","slug":"new-u-s-space-command-opens-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-u-s-space-command-opens-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"New U.S. Space Command Opens Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A new <strong>U.S. Space Command<\/strong> that will serve as the Trump Administration\u2019s transition to a full-fledged \u201cSpace Force,\u201d officially commences operations Aug. 29. The launch date was confirmed by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Pentagon officials at last week\u2019s meeting of the <strong>National Space Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Gen. John Raymond was confirmed by U.S. Senate to lead the new organization. Space Force, which is designed to act as a new, somewhat independent branch of the U.S. Armed Services, requires congressional approval to be officially installed as an organization. The U.S. Space Command, meanwhile, will work to pull resources from other military divisions in order to create Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump hopes to launch the Space Force division by the&nbsp; year 2020. He will deliver remarks on the U.S. Space Command opening late Thursday afternoon at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new U.S. Space Command that will serve as the Trump Administration\u2019s transition to a full-fledged \u201cSpace Force,\u201d officially commences operations Aug. 29. The launch date was confirmed by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Pentagon officials at last week\u2019s meeting of the National Space Council. U.S. Air Force Gen. John Raymond was confirmed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}