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/ Pentagon surveyors met with San Antonio officials this week to discuss the city’s bid to house U.S. Space Command. San Antonio is one of six finalists competing for its new headquarters. Since May, the city has waged a public campaign to attract the unified command, which pulls from the different military branches and oversees operations in space. It’s provisionally headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and employs about 1,400 people. In a virtual meeting Monday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg, City Manager Erik Walsh and other local officials took questions from ...

KVRR Local News December 21, 2020 OMAHA, Neb. – The University of North Dakota is among four Midwestern universities that have formed a space-oriented academic and research alliance to lure the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. University of Nebraska President Ted Carter says the partnership with the University of North Dakota, Kansas State University and Purdue would develop new degree programs and research initiatives. Offutt is among the six finalists to become the headquarters. Other finalists are Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, Patrick Air For...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... OMAHA, Neb. — Four Midwestern universities have formed a space-oriented academic and research alliance aimed at luring the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. University of Nebraska President Ted Carter said the partnership with the University of North Dakota, Kansas State University and Purdue would develop new degree programs and research initiatives, the Omaha...

Space Force Members Will Be Called “Guardians” Mike Pence Announces Published: December 20, 2020 On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence announced that members of the Space Force military service will be called guardians. “We just returned from the Oval Office and so it is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United States, to announce that henceforth, the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as guardians,” Pence said at an event celebrating the Space Force’s first year. The Space Force tweeted Friday that the name announcement came “after a year...

Space Force Poised to See Major Growth, New Uniforms in 2021 Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond administers the oath of enlistment to 73 officer and enlisted space professionals selected to transfer into the U.S. Space Force stationed at Peterson-Schriever Garrison, Sept. 15, 2020. (U.S. Air Force/ Airman 1st Class Alexus Wilcox) 20 Dec 2020 U.S. Space Force had existed for only 18 days when an early missile detection team from the 2nd Space Warning Squadron of the 460th Space Wing at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, spotted the launch of 16 ballistic missiles headed fr...