Is Trump’s ‘Space Force’ Against Space Law?

Jun 19 2018 by The Daily Beast

 
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“Space—the final frontier.”

For fans of Star Trek, the phrase evokes the epic mission of a fictional starship, bound for adventure beyond the stars, “to boldly go where no man has gone before.” For President Donald Trump, humankind’s mission to the final frontier has a very different goal.

On Monday—perhaps in a bid to distract from an appalling humanitarian crisis brewing on the nation’s southern border—President Trump...

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