President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command will relocate from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. President Biden canceled a prior move in 2023 and had kept the command in Colorado. Trump has said he personally selected Alabama over other candidate sites, and Alabama lawmakers anticipated a return to that decision. Huntsville has a long history of rocket development dating to Wernher von Braun's team in the 1950s, hosts NASA Space Camp, and supports space-related tourism. Colorado Springs contains a prominent evangelical military culture tied to the Air Force Academy.
From Politico: President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama. ... The command will head to Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal in the coming years, departing its location at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs. Biden canceled the move in 2023, opting to keep the command in Colorado. Trump has said previously that he personally chose Alabama over Colorado and other potential sites. Alabama lawmakers had long projected confidence that Trump would return to his original decision to move the command to Huntsville.
Honestly, I have no objection to this move that compares to my objection to the whole idea of the Space Force. Colorado Springs is a genuinely weird place, thick with hardcore evangelicals, many of whom are associated with the Air Force Academy. I've never been comfortable with a place with so many military men who can quote you Revelations from memory. I'll take the pick-up trucks and Cat hats of Huntsville over that any day.
And Huntsville has a long history with spaceflight. (The nearby minor-league baseball team, which I adore, is the Rocket City Trash Pandas.) Wernher von Braun and his merry band of adjusted passports set it up in the 1950s. It became the place where all of the rockets of NASA's glory days were built and tested. It's also been a PR bonanzaa tourist attraction and the home of NASA's Space Camp.
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