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<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/congressman-rogers-a-space-corps-is-inevitable/|title=Congressman Rogers: A space corps is 'inevitable'|date=2 December 2017|website=SpaceNews.com|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=1 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701205128/https://spacenews.com/congressman-rogers-a-space-corps-is-inevitable/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Zachary |title=Lawmakers scrap 'Space Corps' proposal |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/congress-space-corps-ndaa/index.html |access-date=August 31, 2023 |work=CNN |date=November 8, 2017}}</ref> However, the proposal was resurrected in 2018 when President [[Donald Trump]] publicly endorsed the creation of a Space Force and directed the Defense Department to reverse its opposition and develop plans for its establishment.<ref name=awkward>{{cite news |last1=Gould |first1=Joe |title=Trump touting 'space force' puts Air Force in awkward spot |url=https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/03/14/trump-touting-space-force-puts-air-force-in-awkward-spot/ |access-date=September 2, 2023 |work=[[Defense News]] |date=March 15, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Mehta |first1=Valerie |last2=Mehta |first2=Aaron |title=Trump orders creation of independent space force — but Congress will still have its say |url=https://www.defensenews.com/space/2018/06/18/trump-orders-creation-of-independent-space-force/ |access-date=August 31, 2023 |work=[[Defense News]] |date=June 19, 2018}}</ref> The [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump Administration]] plan for the U.S. Space Force was outlined in Space Policy Directive-4, initially organizing the U.S. Space Force as part of the Department of the Air Force, but with plans to build out a separate Department of the Space Force in the future.<ref name="Space Policy Directive-4">{{cite web | url=https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/SPD-4/ | title=Space Policy Directive-4 }}</ref> In 2019, Congress passed legislation establishing the U.S. Space Force as a military service under the Department of the Air Force. On 20 December 2019, the [[National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020|National Defense Authorization Act]] was signed into law and the U.S. Space Force was established as the sixth armed service, meeting the Rumsfeld and Allard commissions' recommendations to create a Space Corps within the Department of the Air Force, but still falling short of creating a separate Department of the Space Force.<ref name="afhistory.af.mil"/>