by Matthew Adams at Stars and Stripes
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reversed a Biden decision, and Space Command headquarters will now be moving to Alabama.
“This decision will help America defend and dominate the high frontier,” Trump said in the Oval Office with members of the Alabama congressional delegation.
Trump announced the establishment of Space Command in 2019 toward the end of his first term, but it actually was a reestablishment of the combatant command. It was shuttered by the Pentagon in 2002 as part of the post-9/11 government restructuring. The reestablishment came before the newest military branch, the U.S. Space Force, was founded.
The Air Force in 2021 chose Redstone Arsenal just outside of Huntsville, Ala., to be the U.S. Space Command headquarters.
Redstone, an Army installation, was named one of six finalists for the headquarters in November 2020 after the Air Force conducted two searches for a permanent home for the Pentagon’s newest combatant command, which is charged with overseeing and controlling the U.S. military’s myriad space-based infrastructure and operations. The command has been housed temporarily at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., since it was established in August 2019.
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