Trump moves US Space Command from Colorado to Alabama
The decision benefits a state that overwhelmingly supported Trump’s three presidential bids, at the expense of one that opposed them
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that US Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.
The long-expected decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate US Space Command, an intense fight because the headquarters would be a significant boon to the local economy.
Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space Command, with elected officials from both states asserting that their state is the better location.
“The US Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City,” said Trump, flanked by Republican members of Alabama’s congressional delegation, from the Oval Office on Tuesday.
“We had a lot of competition for this and Alabama’s getting it.”
Trump said Huntsville won the race for the Space Command headquarters, in part, because “they fought harder for it than anybody else”.
