Trump signs order creating new Space Academy akin to West Point; its location will be determined
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 States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.
The U.S.
Space Academy will be for students looking to enter the U.S.
Space Force, a new branch of the military Trump created during his first term.
The president said it will also serve NASA and the civilian spaceflight industry.
OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD FIX FOR DATA CENTER BACKLASH COULD BE ON NASA'S HORIZON "We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most.
That's exciting.
That's really exciting.
And I'm going to be choosing a location very shortly," Trump said during remarks at NASA's Lyndon B.
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas .
The other purpose of the event was to award the four Artemis II astronauts with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
More than a dozen astronauts stood behind Trump throughout his remarks.
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