
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has rejected an attempt to derail its proposal to create a space corps in the Air Force Department.During a late-night debate June 28 on its fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill, the committee defeated, by voice vote, an amendment by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) that would have replaced the space corps provision with language calling for a study on whether the new service is needed. The HASC proceeded to approve the overall bill by a 60-1…