Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - I nga tau 1960 me te 1970, i whakaritea nga ope mokowhiti o te Air Force i roto i te Aerospace Defense Command mo te aukati i te kohinga me nga ope tirotiro mokowhiti, Strategic Air Command mo nga amiorangi mataaratanga o te rangi, me te Air Force Systems Command mo nga whakawhitiwhitinga amiorangi, whakarewatanga mokowhiti, me nga punaha whanaketanga mokowhiti. I te tau 1982, i whakakotahihia nga ope mokowhiti o te US Air Force i roto i te Air Force Space Command, te tuatahi i mua i te US Space Force. I whakamahia tuatahihia nga ope mokowhiti a US i te Pakanga o Vietnam, a ka haere tonu ki te whakarato i nga whakawhitiwhitinga amiorangi, te rangi, me te tautoko whakatere i te 1982 Falklands War, 1983 Te whakaekenga a te United States o Grenada
, 1986 United States whakaeke i Libya, me 1989 United States whakaekenga o Panama. Ko te whakamahinga nui tuatahi o nga ope mokowhiti i tutuki i te Pakanga o te Moana-a-Kiwa, i reira i tino nui ai ki te hononga i arahina e te US, i etahi wa e kiia ana ko te pakanga mokowhiti tuatahi. Ko nga korerorero tuatahi mo te hanga i tetahi ratonga mokowhiti hoia i te United States i puta i te 1958, me te whakaaro i whakahawea e te Perehitini Reagan i te 1982. I tohe te Komihana Space 2001 mo te hanganga o te Space Corps i waenga i te 2007 me te 2011 me te tono a-roto i te US Congress ka hangaia he Space Corps i te 2017. I te 20 o Tihema 2019, i hainatia te United States Space Force Act, he waahanga o te National Defense Authorization Act mo te tau 2020, i hangaia he ratonga mokowhiti motuhake ma te whakaingoa me te whakariterite i te Air Force Space Command ki te United States Space Force.