Trump announces Space Command HQ will switch to Alabama from Colorado
by Robert Tait from Science | The Guardian on (#6ZR6E)
President says national security operations in space will be based in state he won comfortably, reversing Biden decision
Donald Trump made his first public appearance in a week on Tuesday to announce that the US Space Command (Spacecom) headquarters, which is tasked with leading national security operations in space, would be in the Republican stronghold of Alabama.
Flanked by Republican senators and members of Congress at a White House news conference, Trump said Huntsville, Alabama, would be the new location of the space command. The move reverses a Biden administration decision to put the facility at its current temporary headquarters in Democratic-leaning Colorado.
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