With a signature, Trump brings Space Force into being

Around 16,000 active duty Air Force personnel will be temporarily assigned to the Space Force, but only five to six thousand of them will actually become members of the USSF. Eventually the ranks should grow to 15,000… compared to the USAF’s 300,000. The USSF budget for 2020 is a whopping $40 million.

It’s a start, I suppose. But the USSF won’t really come into its own until it starts contracting for the construction of its very own 4,000-ton Orion space battleships.