Trump is moving Space Command to Alabama

President Donald Trump is moving US Space Command’s office from Colorado to Alabama, helium announced during a property league connected Tuesday. The alteration reverses erstwhile President Joe Biden’s 2023 determination to permission it successful Colorado Springs, wherever its impermanent office person been established.

During the property conference, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), seat of the House Armed Services Committee, called Biden’s determination to support Space Command successful Colorado “political,” though Trump claimed Colorado’s mail-in ballot argumentation was a “big factor” successful choosing Alabama.

When asked wherefore the medication chose Alabama for the Space Command, Trump said, “…it conscionable works, due to the fact that we person truthful overmuch other there,” referencing the beingness of NASA, SpaceX, and the Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin successful the state. He besides said the Space Command office volition “play a cardinal role” successful building the Golden Dome rocket defence system.

Following the shutdown of Space Command successful 2002, President Trump passed a instrumentality to reestablish it during his archetypal word successful 2019, opening a hunt for its adjacent headquarters. Trump planned to bring the Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama, but President Joe Biden opted to keep its headquarters successful Colorado Springs, Colorado, wherever Space Command primitively formed.