space
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Plans to expand space program create hope for a bigger Colorado role (VIDEO)
WASHINGTON — Federal officials laid out a plan to expand commercial space travel before U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and other lawmakers Wednesday while Colorado political leaders try to position the state to benefit from growing opportunities in the final frontier. Potentially most important for Colorado was a plan for managing space traffic described at a…
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Spaceport Colorado sets a course for the future
By Grant Stringer and Kara Mason | Aurora Sentinel via AP There was a time we would have marveled at flying to 380,000 feet to experience the curvature of the Earth, weightlessness, and the darkness of space. In the next few decades, space travel may become so ordinary that we don’t even bat an eye.…
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BIDLACK | May the Space Force be with you?
My dad was drafted into the US Army before Pearl Harbor, at roughly the same time as the Army leadership renamed and restructured what had been known as the Army Air Corps into the Army Air Forces. This new entity, still entirely owned and operated by the Army, was charged with air operations during World…
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Trump orders creation of ‘space force’
President Donald Trump on Monday redoubled his efforts to create a separate military force for space, directing the Pentagon to clear the way for the new service branch ahead of a congressional move to create it. It remained unclear how the presidential pronouncement would impact Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, which now controls…
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CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP: How Colorado’s delegation voted this week
Here’s a look at key votes in Congress this week and how Colorado’s delegation voted: H.R. 5515: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 This was a vote to pass H.R. 5515 in the House. H.R. 5515 is the hotly contested $717 billion military spending bill that would pay for numerous new fighter jets,…