Trump signs executive order creating US Space Academy

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday establishing the U.S. Space Academy, an institution he says will be the next U.S. military academy focused on training astronauts, engineers, scientists, and warfighters to lead the country into the future of space exploration and defense. Trump’s executive ord

Trump signs order to create a US Space Academy  Reuters

The president said graduates of the new academy would serve the US Space Force, NASA and the civilian flight industry.

US President Donald Trump on Friday announced the creation of a “Space Academy” to train future civilian and military recruits for an arena where the United States faces rivalry with China. Speaking at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Trump said the institution would be modelled on the famed US military academy

"Space is the hot thing," President Trump said at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to establish the U.S. Space Academy.Trump said the location of the academy was yet to be determined, but compared its significance to that of the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and the United Stat

President Donald Trump on Friday announced that he would sign an executive order to create a new military academy, the U.S. Space Academy.

Read a summary of this article on FAST. Get bite-sized news via a newcards interface. Give it a try. Click here to return to FAST Tap here to return to FAST FAST WASHINGTON, Aug 28 : President Donald Trump said on Friday he will sign an executive order to create a U.S. Space Academy."I will sign an executive order to b