'Payload Deployment': Space Force Launches Flashy New Recruiting Website

"Space is closer than you think," the new Space Force website announces, before bringing visitors to a computer-generated rocket launch pad.

Choose the prompts and you get a confirmation -- "We are 'go' for launch!" -- before being virtually whisked into medium Earth orbit, engines rumbling. The service has redesigned its recruiting website, offering an interactive video game-like experience where visitors can initiate launch and deploy a satellite. The sleek new portal hopes to advertise the Space Force mission and drum up interest in the military's youngest service branch.