Air Commodore Paul Godfrey to lead UK’s new Space Command By Elaine Knutt on 05/02/2021 Air Commodore Paul Godfrey OBE will lead the UK's new Space command. Credit: the RAF Air Commodore Paul Godfrey OBE from the Royal Air Force (RAF) will become the first leader of the UK’s new Space Command. The new organisation – due to be formed later this year amid international competition to assert interests in space – was originally announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in November 2020. Space Command will draw on staff from the UK’s air force, army and navy, alongside civil servants and experts from the private sector, according to the RAF’s release. It will be based at an existing RAF base in High Wycombe, north west of London, and is expected to be operational by early summer.