"There are many people in the Pentagon who I think in large part agree with us. I've been particularly proud of Deputy Secretary of Defense Shanahan who seems to totally get it," said Rep. Jim Cooper, ...

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. FILE PHOTO U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. FILE PHOTO An area ...

Congressional negotiators have rejected the House's plan to create a new "Space Corps" -- omitting the proposal for a new military branch under the umbrella of the Air Force from the final version of ...

The White House and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are speaking out against a congressional proposal to create a new "Space Corps" dedicated to fighting future wars outside the earth's atmosphere. The ...

House lawmakers are seizing on a pair of U.S. Air Force space program delays to support the need to create a Space Corps—an idea strongly opposed by the Air Force and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. The ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A new push to begin work toward establishment of a separate military "space corps" may be getting under way, according to industry officials. Such a corps was advocated in ...

Mattis warned the proposal would create a “narrower and even parochial approach” to space operations, in a letter Tuesday to Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, an Armed Services subcommittee chairman. “I do ...