The United States Military service will have a new official flag for a new military service after 72 years. It will symbolize its expanded missions to outer space. According to Fox News' latest report, the new flag will be revealed on Friday, May 15.
The flag of the newly created Space Force will be presented by the Military leaders to US President Donald Trump during a signing ceremony for the 2020 Armed Forces Day proclamation which will take place in the Oval Office.
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According to the report, a senior administration official said that a silver delta symbol surrounded by two constellations cast against the dark blue of outer space will be featured in the new flag derived from Space Force's Seal.
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"The flag takes the key and central elements of the seal and places them on a black field fringed in platinum with the words 'The United States Space Force' and Roman numerals MMXIX (2019) below," said the administration official in the report.
New US Space Force flag will be unveiled symbolizing the expanded missions of the U.S. Military Service
According to the report of Fox News, the Defense Logistics Agency "Flag Room" in Philadelphia, which is also responsible for creating the personal flags of the US president, produced the Space Force Flag. The new flag came while the five-month-old Space Force is looking for eligible active-duty personnel to apply, transferring them into the new service. Space force released a new recruiting video that will guide the applicants.
When the Defense Department was directed to establish the sixth branch of the military by the .S President Trump in 2018, he said that the US must dominate space, since mere American presence in outer space is not enough.
After that, NASA was directed by the administration to deploy American astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2024 under NASA's Artemis program.
The space mission of NASA that will deploy American astronauts from the US to the surface of the moon is two weeks away. This will be the first time American astronauts will step on the moon after the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet.
NASA astronauts have been hitching rides into space on Russian Soyuz Rockets for nearly a decade. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first to fly on the private company's spacecraft.
