From: utzoo!decvax!cca!CARTER@RU-GREEN@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Space in the News
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2546
Posted: Sun Aug  8 00:50:21 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 08:39:41 1982

From:  Robert A. Carter 
    Date: Friday, 6 August 1982  10:58-EDT
    From: WMartin at Office-8 (Will Martin)

    The Department of Defense has created the US Air Force Space
    Command in response to the increasing use of space for military
    purposes.  The new command, to be operational Septemeber 1, will
    be part of the Air Force.

    The Pentagon's move follows a long debate with Congress over
    whether to rename the US Air Force the US Aerospace Force.
    Congress wanted to change the name to sharpen DoD's focus for
    space activities, which it felt were lagging behind the Soviet
    military effort in space.  ...

"[L]ong debate with Congress"?  Does anyone have any citations to
support that?  I doubt the suggestion was ever really taken very
seriously.

_Bob