NASA only needs several hundred people a year to work on space programs. The agency has two Guardians who go to space today, they are astronauts in NASA's astronaut corps. Do you ever get to promise them they're going to get to go to space? I would say I hope someday that the Ken Guardians go to space yes today we have two Guardians who gone to space but one day somewhere out there in the future absolutely do you have to suffer through a lot of Guardians of the Galaxy jokes? "We need cyberspace operators and cyberspace defenders"
The US Space Force, established in 2019, is the first new branch of the military to be created since 1947, and its mission is vast: defend US interests in space. But what exactly is the Space Force? And what does defending US interests in space mean or look like practically?
As the nearly $900 billion defense spending bill winds its way through Congress, Wes went to the Pentagon to sit down with General David Thompson, the Vice Chief of Space Operations to learn what US interests in space are, and how the branch is developing. Bloomberg cybersecurity reporter Katrina Manson joins later to describe her visit to Space Command in Colorado and the importance of the US keeping a watch on its adversaries in zero gravity.
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