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June 20, 2001
   
Russia has formally made its space forces a separate branch of the service. They have been a division of the Strategic Rocket Forces for decades. The move was intended to make sure that money allocated to space functions is not absorbed by the land-based nuclear missile force.--Stephen V Cole