In a high-profile announcement from the Oval Office of the White House, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command’s permanent headquarters will be located in Huntsville.
Joined by Alabama’s
@SenTuberville and
@SenKatieBritt, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and Alabama Congressmen
@RepMikeRogersAL,
@Robert_Aderholt,
@USRepGaryPalmer,
@RepBarryMoore, and
@RepDaleStrong – Trump brought an end to years of delay and politicization by the Biden administration.
“As you know, this has been going on for a long period of time, and I am thrilled to report that the U.S. Space Command Headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama,” President Trump said, “forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City.”
“We love Alabama.”
“This will result in more than 30,000 Alabama jobs, and probably much more than that, and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. And that’s billions, because it can’t be millions, it’s billions and billions of dollars. Most importantly, this decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier, as they call it,” President Trump said.
Today’s announcement is the final chapter in a situation that began in 2021 when the U.S. Air Force selected Redstone Arsenal as the preferred site, identifying Huntsville as objectively best suited for the mission.
President Joe Biden stalled and ultimately reversed the process in July 2023, opting instead to locate the headquarters in Colorado Springs.
Throughout the remainder of Biden’s administration, Alabama’s congressional delegation unleashed a relentless campaign to investigate the decisionmaking process and secure the merit-based choice to base the headquarters in Huntsville.
On Tuesday at the White House, each Alabama Republican elected official spoke in praise of the massive announcement.
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