{"id":63,"date":"2026-05-05T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:57:33","slug":"united-states-space-force","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/collaboration\/united-states-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. Space Force emerging as critical part of Pentagon&#039;s warfighting capabilities\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0EgqDefYqoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the US Armed Forces, while NASA is an independent agency of the US government responsible for civil spaceflight. NASA and the Space Force&#8217;s predecessors in the Air Force have a long-standing cooperative relationship, with the Space Force supporting NASA launches out of Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and Vandenberg Space Force Base, to include range support and rescue operations from Task Force 45.[192] NASA and the Space Force also partner on matters such as defending Earth from asteroids.[193] Space Force members can be NASA astronauts, with Colonel Michael S. Hopkins, the commander of SpaceX Crew-1, commissioned into the Space Force from the International Space Station on December 18, 2020.[194][195][196] In September 2020, the Space Force and NASA signed a memorandum of understanding formally acknowledging the joint role of both agencies. This new memorandum replaced a similar document signed in 2006 between NASA and Air Force Space Command.[197][198]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/29\/Seal_of_the_United_States_Space_Force.svg\/250px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Space_Force.svg.png\" alt=\"United States Space Force - Wikipedia\" style=\"width:314px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the US Armed Forces, while NASA is an independent agency of the US government responsible for civil spaceflight. NASA and the Space Force&#8217;s predecessors in the Air Force have a long-standing cooperative relationship, with the Space Force supporting NASA launches out of Kennedy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/collaboration\/united-states-space-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United States Space Force<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}