Former President Donald Trump decided in the final days of his presidency to move the headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama.
AFP via Getty ImagesBiden was reportedly persuaded by Space Command General James Dickinson to keep the command in Colorado Springs in order to preserve the country’s military readiness, senior White House officials told AP..by the Trump Administration in January 2021 to shuffle Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama, over five other cities that had been named finalists for the headquarters months earlier.
The headquarters have taken on special importance since the Space Force was launched as a sixth U.S. military branch in 2019 and has since been based temporarily at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.In November 2020, one year into using Peterson Air Force Base as its temporary location, U.S. Space Command narrowed its
for its permanent headquarters to Redstone Army Airfield, in Huntsville; as well as Texas’ Port San Antonio; Patrick Air Force Base, outside Melbourne, Florida; Offutt Air Force Base outside Omaha, Nebraska; and Colorado’s Peterson Air Force Base.the Space Command in August 2019, just months before the foundation of the Space Force, through the enactment of a $738 billion defense spending bill. Trump’s decision to move its headquarters just over one year later was met with mixed reactions.
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