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| November 2 2022 | General John W. Raymond retired as Chief of Space Operations. |
| September 20 2022 | The Space Force unveiled its official anthem, 'Semper Supra' ('Always Above'), during the Air, Space and Cyber Conference. |
| October 1 2021 | The first six U.S. Army soldiers were inducted into the Space Force at Peterson Space Force Base. |
| December 18 2020 | Colonel Michael S. Hopkins became the first astronaut to be commissioned into the Space Force, swearing in from the International Space Station. |
| December 10 2020 | The first Space Force enlisted recruits graduated basic military training. |
| October 20 2020 | The first seven guardians were enlisted directly into the Space Force. |
| April 18 2020 | 86 graduates of the United States Air Force Academy became the first group of commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Space Force. |
| April 3 2020 | Chief Master Sergeant Roger A. Towberman became the Space Force's second member and first enlisted member. |
| January 14 2020 | General John W. Raymond was officially sworn in as chief of space operations by Vice President Mike Pence. |
| December 20 2019 | United States Space Force is officially established as the sixth military service in the United States Armed Forces, with Air Force Space Command being transformed into the Space Force. |
| December 20 2019 | President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, establishing the Space Force as the sixth armed service branch. Air Force General John 'Jay' Raymond became the first chief of space operations. |
| December 20 2019 | President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which laid the groundwork for creating the United States Space Force as a separate military branch. |
| December 17 2019 | House and Senate passed a compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 which included the Space Force, with vote margins of 377–48 and 82–8 respectively. |
| December 9 2019 | House and Senate Armed Services Committees announced an agreement regarding creating the Space Force. |
| August 29 2019 | United States Space Command was reestablished as a geographic combatant command. |
| August 29 2019 | United States Space Command is reestablished as a geographic combatant command. |
| May 2019 | A group of 43 former military, space, and intelligence leaders released an open letter calling for the creation of a space force. |
| March 2019 | President Donald Trump expressed support for creating a Space Force, calling it a 'great idea' |
| February 2019 | The Department of Defense submitted a legislative proposal to Congress for creating the Space Force, proposing initial placement within the Department of the Air Force. |
| June 2018 | Trump asked the Department of Defense to begin establishing a Space Force as part of the military. |
| March 2018 | President Donald Trump publicly stated that creating a Space Force was a 'great idea' and could potentially happen. |
| 2017 | Space command was reorganized as the Joint Force Space Component Commander. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article History of the United States Space Force, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.