{"id":149330,"date":"2025-09-02T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149284"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:30:13","slug":"rocket-city-trump-moves-u-s-space-command-to-huntsville-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/rocket-city-trump-moves-u-s-space-command-to-huntsville-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rocket City: Trump moves U.S. Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, September 2, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a reversal of a Biden-era decision, President Donald Trump on Tuesday said U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama instead of Colorado.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149285\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-149285\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RocketCity-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"246\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. 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,\u201d Trump said from the Oval Office on Tuesday while flanked by Republican members of Alabama\u2019s congressional delegation. \u201cWe had a lot of competition for this and Alabama\u2019s getting it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Team had opted to keep the Space Command in Colorado, which has been the temporary headquarters since the military space program was established by Trump in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the big problems I have with Colorado is they have mail-in voting,\u201d Trump said, adding that factored into his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Some 1,700 personnel work at Space Command, according to congressional records.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville, home to NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center and a major hub for defense contractors, such as L3Harris\u00a0and Lockheed Martin, has long lobbied for the Space Command headquarters.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\">Support<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/freepressfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Free Press Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2025 Real World News In a reversal of a Biden-era decision, President Donald Trump on Tuesday said U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama instead of Colorado. \u201cThe U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,608,9,121,10,24,14,16],"tags":[610,611],"class_list":["post-149330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-geostrategy","category-rest-of-the-best","category-space","category-top-stories","category-u-s-intelligence","category-u-s-military","category-u-s-politics","tag-rocket-city-trump-moves-u-s-space-command-to-huntsville","tag-alabama","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}