Lightning flashes over the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Aug. 4. On Friday, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. Space Academy to train future space staff. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 28 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump Friday signed an executive order to create the U.S. Space Academy to train and educate potential aerospace workers and service members.
"That's a big deal. So, you think of West Point, and you think of Annapolis, and you think of the Air Force Academy, and you think of the Coast Guard Academy -- great -- they're all great, but we're going to have now a space force," Trump said at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most."
The action said the mandate for the academy is to "strengthen the Nation's space workforce by expanding opportunities to educate and develop the next generation of leaders across the space domain."
Trump also awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of the Artemis II.
