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The space force. >> my administration is reclaiming americas heritage as the worlds greatest space-faring nation. we very well may soon have the space force. youve been hearing about that. and were actually thinking of a sixth. and that would be the space force. does that make sense? the space force, general. you probably havent even heard that. im just telling you now. >> well, right now, vice president mike pence is talking about just that. the future of the u.s. military in space, and the pos...

Space environment. its very simple. you can launch a satellite into space, you can launch a lot of space debris that can garbage up the environment for the future. our country needs to set the example. we already have a very good capability with the u.s. air force spending initially $8 billion on something that -- >> martha: are we able to adequately protect our satellite systems and our gps systems in terms of cyber warfare, you think we can do that already? >> i think if we couldnt, then leade...

Vice president called a crowded and adversarial landscape. correspondent kristin fisher starts us off with what could be the epic and expensive expansion of the pentagons power and responsibility. >> we are talking about a major reorganization of the u.s. military. the trump administration wants to create an entirely new branch for the first time since the air force was established in 1947. back then, dominance in the air was a game changer in world war ii. now the vice president said its domina...

Station. but that story is by no means the biggest space-related story today. far from it, in fact. today the trump administration proudly rolled out its plan for the new space force. or as the president tweeted, space force all the way! so what is it and why do we need it? here is how the vice president explained it in the official announcement this morning. >> the space environment is fundamentally changed in the last generation. what was once peaceful and uncontested is now crowded and advers...

Decades and decades and centuries and centuries. we have to be able to avoid that. it takes away the dream of exploring space. >> a destroyed space environment would mean a war with no winners. >> it would be unusable for all. not just the two adversaries for everyone. and it would be unusable for a long time. >> a new mutually assured destruction? >> maybe so. maybe so. >> two, one. >> a mutually assured destruction. m.a.d., as it was known during the cold war, for the space age. but this time ...

That. it takes away the dream of exploring space. >> a destroyed space environment would mean a war with no winners. >> it would be unusable for all, not just the two adversaries, but for everyone. and it would be unusable for a long time. >> a new mutually assured destruction? >> maybe so. maybe so. >> a mutually assured destruction. m.a.d. as it was known during the cold war for the space age, but this time with no rules and no limits. >> if not explicit, there was certainly an implicit agreem...

To launch in 2018. lockheed martin granted cnn an exclusive first ever look at the gps 3 in production, a classified and clean environment in which one stray hair, a bit of dust could do significant damage. >> do you need to replenish the constellation? >> colonel steven whitney, director of the gps system under air force space command, tells us that these new satellites have new special capabilities. >> improving the ashlths, improving the integrity of the sig thatll, improving the power, the a...

He reached the same conclusion. >> interesting in using these chemicals in a confined space environment. >> separately, a u.s. government source said there was no reason to doubt the authenticity of these photos. >> you have new information about the number of foreign fighters going to iraq and syria. >> thats right. the nations top spy told congress since the conflict began in 2011, more than 20,000 foreign fighters from 90 countries have traveled to the region. a year later the number has spik...

Required to exercise a considerable amount every day for a couple of hours. i certainly dont do that. the focus of these studies is more on the details of our physiology. the space environment, theres a lot of radiation. we dont understand what that does to the human body. if one day we want to send people on a trip to mars thats going to take a couple of years. so we have to expand our knowledge of what it is and what it does to us to stay in space -- [ no audio ] >> i think -- mark can you sti...

Together, neil was talking about we had to do this in steps. already nasa is planning to go out, lasso an asteroid put it in orbit around the moon then we will be going up with two astronauts to the oarai on. that is one of the few steps. >> do you think we will see in our lifetime a man on mars? >> i think the first person to walk on the planet mars is alive today. it might be some kid in grade school or high school. we have a lot to learn before we are ready to do this. we understand a lot of ...