The center was formed as Aerospace Defense Command was being disestablished, and its other assets being transferred to
Tactical Air Command (1 October 1979) and
Strategic Air Command. The Aerospace Defense Center as part of an "ad hoc working group" of personnel from
Air Force Systems Command and the
Office of the Secretary of the Air Force studied the 1982 proposal for "reorganization of USAF space management practices" by General
Robert T. Marsh. Space Command was renamed
Air Force Space Command in 1985. After the Aerospace Defense Center was disestablished, aerospace defense history operations continued by the NORAD and
USNORTHCOM Command History Office, and the
Air Force Space Command Office of History. The AFSPC command historian has been Mr. George W. Bradley, III since 1992. A "Specialized Historical Document Collection" is in Peterson AFB Building 1470, and the
Peterson Air and Space Museum has a library with historical Aerospace Defense documents. ==References==