Thule Air Base in Greenland, the U.S.’s northernmost military installation, has been renamed Pituffik Space Base. “For seventy years, Thule Air Force Base has maintained peace in the Arctic, it’s conducted scientific research, it’s been part of the community,” he said in a video address posted on Twitter. The frigid temperatures on the ground were no match for the warmth of the friendship shared today at the Pituffik Space Base renaming ceremony. The U.S. Space Force was established in 2019 and is organized under the Department of the Air Force. When it was created, the Department of Defense announced that Air Force installations would be reviewed, and like Thule Air Base was this month, be redesignated as Space Force bases.

Source: CBC News April 11, 2023 20:03 UTC