New space Service 'Inadvisable,' Senator Warns.

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It would be "inadvisable" to set up a new bureaucracy to manage the military space program, said Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Co. A congressionally chartered commission is looking at whether the Air Force should keep that mission or hand it over to a separate service.

Allard is a member of the Armed Services Committee and chairs the subcommittee on strategic forces.

"This is not the time to be setting up a new agency," Allard said during a breakfast with reporters in Washington, D.C. The main reason, he said, is a tight budget. "We have better places ... to put our resources.

Allard, meanwhile, is closely involved with another commission, which is reviewing the role of the National Reconnaissance Office...

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