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Ex-Air Force Secretary James Opposes Proposed Space Corps

By Marc Selinger

Monday, September 11th, 2017

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Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James expressed opposition Sept. 6 to a House-passed proposal to create a space corps within the Air Force Department, saying the new organization would cause upheaval, erect new bureaucratic barriers and fail to fix the problems it is supposed to resolve.James, whose three-year tenure at the Air Force helm ended in January, said she would prefer more targeted measures for space, such as providing more money to ease funding shortages and streamlining bureaucracy…

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