{"id":34601,"date":"2018-06-19T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34601"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:49:01","slug":"trump-setting-up-us-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-setting-up-us-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Setting up US space force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump on Monday said he was ordering the establishment of a sixth branch of the military to clear the way for American dominance of space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,\u201d Trump said before a meeting of his National Space Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have the Air Force and we\u2019re going to have the \u2018Space Force\u2019. Separate but equal. It is going to be something. So important,\u201d he said later. The US, however, is a member of the Outer Space Treaty, which bars the stationing of weapons of mass destruction in space and only allows for the use of the moon and other celestial bodies for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also signed a directive on the management of traffic and debris in space.<\/p>\n<p>The announcements were his administration&#8217;s latest moves to scale up U.S. space exploration. The United States wants to send robotic explorers to the moon as soon as next year as a preparatory step towards sending astronauts back there for the first time since 1972, a NASA official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was ordering the establishment of a sixth branch of the military to clear the way for American dominance of space. \u201cIt is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,\u201d Trump said before a meeting of his [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34603,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601\/revisions\/34603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}