Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Adviser John Bolton led a classified meeting Friday with top national security and military officials at the White House to simulate how to "deter and defeat" the "increasingly concerning threats" posed by U.S. adversaries in space, a White House official told Axios.
Why it matters: The meeting gives us a preview into who will be the leading voices on the president's Space Force, which hasn't been formally established yet.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has successfully launched its VSS Unity space tourism rocketship to the edge of space, just beyond 50 miles above the surface of the Earth.
Why it matters: Virgin Galactic officials hope that this test will be a turning point in making commercial space tourism a reality. About 600 people have already doled out $250,000 to ride in the rocket and a get a view of Earth from above.
