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  • US in real danger of losing the moon race to China, experts tell Senate

    09/04/2025 1:20:23 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 70 replies
    Space dot com ^ | September 4, 2025 | Josh Dinner
    Committee Chairman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) opened the Sept. 3 hearing, titled "There's a Bad Moon on the Rise," by warning that the United States risks losing the moon to China if NASA's Artemis program falters. The hearing centered on how America can stay ahead in the new space race, with lawmakers pressing the importance of Artemis and reaffirming the need for the Gateway space station and to maintain continuous operations in low Earth orbit (LEO).Witnesses underscored that delays, budget uncertainty, or wavering commitments could undermine both U.S. industry and international alliances, warning that uncertainty could drive partners and suppliers...
  • BREAKING: President Trump just announced the relocation of the US Space Command HQ to Huntsville, Alabama.

    09/02/2025 12:00:25 PM PDT · by rxsid · 105 replies
    x.com ^ | 09.02.2025 | ResisttheMS
    BREAKING: President Trump just announced the relocation of the US Space Command HQ to Huntsville, Alabama. (video)
  • LIVE: President Trump Makes an Announcement - 9/2/25

    09/02/2025 10:12:54 AM PDT · by bryan999 · 89 replies
    President Donald J. Trump will make an announcement at the White House. Join RSBN LIVE at 12:00 pm EDT on September 2, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/y0m6-ZXiN24?si=S0r4AHwaOSCd-1Mz
  • Trump expected to move Space Command headquarters out of Colorado in his ‘first week’

    11/12/2024 2:41:15 AM PST · by Jemian · 80 replies
    Washington Examiner via Newsbreak ^ | Nov. 11, 2024 | Brady Knox
    President-elect Donald Trump is expected controversially to move Space Command headquarters out of Colorado to Alabama. Space Command, separate from the Trump-created Space Force, has been the center of a yearslong dispute about whether to put its headquarters in Colorado or Alabama. Trump has favored the deep-red Alabama, while Biden favored the deep-blue Colorado. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) told Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5 that Trump would settle the dispute as one of his first moves in office. "President Trump said in the campaign that he was going to reverse that decision if elected," he said, referring to Biden's decision...
  • Biden decides to keep Space Command in Colorado, rejecting move to Alabama

    07/31/2023 4:09:50 PM PDT · by Alter Kaker · 29 replies
    AP ^ | 7/31/2023 | Lolita Baldor and Tara Copp
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on. U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson’s view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was...
  • Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say

    04/14/2022 4:35:18 PM PDT · by bitt · 24 replies
    vice.com ^ | 4/7/2022 | Becky Ferreira
    A small meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, and may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor. An object from another star system crashed into Earth in 2014, the United States Space Command (USSC) confirmed in a newly-released memo. The meteor ignited in a fireball in the skies near Papua New Guinea, the memo states, and scientists believe it possibly sprinkled interstellar debris into the South Pacific Ocean. The confirmation backs up the breakthrough discovery of the first interstellar meteor—and, retroactively, the first known interstellar object of any kind to reach our solar system—which was...
  • An interstellar object exploded over Earth in 2014, declassified government data reveal

    04/11/2022 12:22:52 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 23 replies
    Live Science ^ | Brandon Specktor
    A fireball that blazed through the skies over Papua New Guinea in 2014 was actually a fast-moving object from another star system, according to a recent memo(opens in new tab) released by the U.S. Space Command (USSC). The object, a small meteorite measuring just 1.5 feet (0.45 meter) across, slammed into Earth's atmosphere on Jan. 8, 2014, after traveling through space at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h) — a speed that far exceeds the average velocity of meteors that orbit within the solar system, according to a 2019 study of the object published in the preprint database arXiv. 2019...
  • Huntsville, Alabama Named US Space Command HQ

    01/13/2021 3:07:14 PM PST · by blam · 39 replies
    Newsmax ^ | 1-13-2021 | Solange Reyner
    Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced Huntsville as the U.S. Space Command’s new U.S. headquarters, a move Colorado lawmakers will look to overturn once President-elect Joe Biden is in office, saying President Donald Trump received “bad advice from political advisers” in making his decision. “I couldn’t be more pleased to learn that Alabama will be the new home to the United States Space Command!” Ivey tweeted. “Our state has long provided exceptional support for our military and their families as well as rich and storied history when it comes to space exploration. This combination only enhances the outstanding relationships...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Wednesday 4/15/2020

    04/15/2020 8:56:37 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 2 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 4/15/2020 | Nextrush/Self
    The campaign of Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden has issued a denial of the sexual assault allegation of former aide Tara Reade...... The 'stimulus' money electronically deposited into millions of bank accounts today..... And the checks will bear the signature of Donald J. Trump on them...... Iranian speed boats harassing a formation of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels in the Persian Gulf today...... The US Space Command says that Russia conducted a test of a system designed to shoot down satellites today.... The British defense contractor BAE Systems has sold some 18.9 billion dollars worth of arms to Saudi...
  • Watch Senate Candidate Mark Kelly Give Three Different Answers as to Whether He'd Support Bernie for President

    02/18/2020 9:14:18 AM PST · by rktman · 13 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 2/18/2020 | Cortney O'Brien
    Arizona Senate candidate Mark Kelly gave us a good indication of the state of the Democratic Party this weekend now that Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) is the bonafide frontrunner in the 2020 presidential primary. Kelly, who's running to unseat Republican Sen. Martha McSally in November, can't give a straight answer as to whether he'll support a democratic socialist for president. CBS 5 Arizona's Family reporter Dennis Welch first tried to get an answer out of Kelly on air on Friday. "Bernie Sanders wins," Welch said, giving Kelly a hypothetical. "Are you going to support someone who describes himself as a...
  • Trump launches Space Command

    08/29/2019 4:02:17 PM PDT · by Innovative · 34 replies
    CNN ^ | Aug. 29, 2019 | Ryan Browne
    President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command. "Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high ground of space, it's going to be a whole different ballgame," Trump said at a White House ceremony marking the command's establishment. Space Command will become the 11th combatant command, joining the ranks of US Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, and US Special Operations Command, which oversees Special Operations Forces.
  • US aerospace command moving comms gear back to Cold War bunker (EMP fears?)

    04/07/2015 11:09:06 PM PDT · by tcrlaf · 25 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | 4-7-2015 | AFP
    The US military command that scans North America's skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said. The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command's sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military officers said. The Pentagon last week announced a $700 million contract with Raytheon Corporation to oversee the work for North American Aerospace Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command. Admiral William Gortney, head of NORAD and Northern Command, said that "because of the very nature of...
  • Chandler Predicts Stronger Ties Between Air Force And NASA

    05/31/2010 4:00:56 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 34 replies · 394+ views
    Inside Defense ^ | 4/30/2010 | Titus Ledbetter III
    The proposed cancellation of NASA’s Constellation manned spacecraft program could foster a stronger bond between the civilian space agency and the Air Force, a senior service official said this week. “This is going to drive us to work together,” Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Howie Chandler at an April 28 Air Force Association breakfast in Arlington, VA, when asked if cancellation of Constellation could impact the Air Force. “I think you’ll see us start to do that even more than we have in the past.” To that end, the Air Force is participating in a forum to discuss...
  • Space, Cyberspace Viewed as Likely Battlegrounds for U.S. in 21st Century

    01/29/2010 2:38:16 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 1 replies · 141+ views
    Space News ^ | 1/29/2010 | Turner Brinton
    The United States faces an evolving list of potential adversaries in the 21st century that not only continue to seek weapons of mass destruction, but are honing the skills necessary to wage battle in cyberspace as well as outer space, a panel of national security experts said Jan. 20. The nature of warfare has changed significantly since the end of the 20th century, with new technologies and threats emerging faster than ever, U.S. Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler, commander of Air Force Space Command, said during a panel discussion at the Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy here. The...
  • Another SAC Sack

    11/04/2009 4:52:44 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 10 replies · 838+ views
    The Strategy Page ^ | 11/4/2009 | The Strategy Page
    For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Air Force has relieved the commander of a combat wing. This time it was the 5th Bomb Wing, a B-52 outfit. Previously, the commander of one of the three Minuteman ICBM wings was relieved. The three missile wings control 450 American Minuteman III ICBMs. In this case, two other senior officers were also relieved (one of them the guy in charge of the Wing Maintenance Squadron.) In both cases, the reason was "loss of confidence in his ability to command". That's milspeak for "too many little things have gone...
  • US Air Force sacks nuclear commander after blunders

    10/15/2009 5:26:52 PM PDT · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 29 replies · 2,297+ views
    Space War ^ | 10/15/2009 | Staff Writers
    The US Air Force said on Thursday the commander of a nuclear wing had been sacked after his unit failed a safety inspection, trucks carrying missile parts crashed and officers under him fell asleep with launch codes in hand. Colonel Christopher Ayres, commander of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, was removed Wednesday "due to loss of confidence in his ability to command," Air Force Space Command said in a statement. The Air Force has tried to improve its handling of the country's nuclear arsenal after a series of mishaps and blunders led to...
  • Powerful new satellite to debut over Pacific

    04/10/2008 5:35:57 PM PDT · by buccaneer81 · 19 replies · 103+ views
    The Guardian (UK) ^ | April 10 2008 | Jim Wolf
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 10 (Reuters) - The United States is set to start operating a powerful new military communications satellite over the Pacific next week, the first of a planned six-satellite network that will boost data flows 10-fold, the Air Force Space Command said Thursday.
  • Space expands...its headquarters

    07/17/2007 8:08:48 PM PDT · by KevinDavis · 5 replies · 168+ views
    Air Force Space Command ^ | 07/16/07 | Sgt. Kate Rust
    7/16/2007 - PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- A marketing firm might be tempted to call it "HQ-too" or "Bldg 1.5," much like a movie sequel or a "lighter" version, but they'd be seriously off target. The Air Force Space Command 2nd Headquarters, located in the newly renovated Ent Building on Peterson AFB is AFSPC Headquarters itself, just in an additional building. And that building officially opened for business here July 13. AFSPC Commander Gen. Kevin P. Chilton presided over the ceremony and performed the ribbon-cutting honors.
  • Former astronaut takes command of Air Force Space Command

    06/29/2006 9:05:53 PM PDT · by KevinDavis · 2 replies · 222+ views
    Air Force Link ^ | 06/27/06 | Capt. Karim Ratey
    6/27/2006 - PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFPN) -- Gen. Kevin P. Chilton assumed command of Air Force Space Command in a ceremony here June 26, presided over by Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley. Current and former national defense leaders, active and retired senior officers, community leaders and active-duty servicemembers gathered at the parade field here to welcome AFSPC's newest commander. He succeeded Gen. Lance W. Lord, who retired April 1. General Chilton is the first astronaut to earn a fourth star. He pinned on the rank of general in a promotion ceremony the morning of...
  • The Third Shoe

    04/18/2006 4:18:56 PM PDT · by Rockitz · 1 replies · 288+ views
    SpaceReview.com ^ | February 20, 2006 | Wayne Eleazer
    The FY 2006 Department of Defense budget slashed funding for a number of military space programs. According to Aviation Week, the Transformational Satellite (TSAT) communications system was cut by $400 million, the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High was cut by $50 million, and the Space Radar Program lost $125.8 million. All together, that is a cut of over $575 million; as the late Senator Everett F. Dirksen might have said, at this rate pretty soon we are going to be talking about some real money. The cuts were hardly a surprise. The fact that a number of Air Force...