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Trump once again moves Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama

During his first term as president, Donald Trump attempted to move the headquarters of the Space Force Colorado to Alabama. That move, announced in January 2021, never happened, first because it came so late in his term and second because Biden had no interest in making it happen and eventually rescinded it in 2023.

Today Trump reinstated that decision, once again announcing that the Space Force headquarters will move to Huntsville, Alabama.

The politics for this change have been and will continue to be complicated. Alabama’s lower cost of living would save the government money, but the defense industry is also well clustered in Colorado due to the military’s space operations that have been there for many decades.

In general I have never quite understood Trump’s desire to do this. I suspect there are some quid pro quo agreements in the background with Alabama politicians: “If you bring the Space Force to Alabama, Mr. Trump, we will back you on your other plans.” Then again, Trump might simply want to punish the increasingly leftist haven of Colorado.

Either way, it is now likely to finally happen. Trump 47 has been moving fast on all his initiatives, and is aided in this by a staff that is largely supportive (unlike during Trump 45).

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

8 comments

  • Tom Biggar

    It’s the payoff to cancel Artemis program. It keeps Huntsville alive and rocket scientists employed without having to relocate. Now AL congress will support cancellation of boondoggle.

  • Tom Biggar: YES! Why didn’t I think of this? Of course.

  • Saville

    Well I hope that’s the reason.

  • Related: Consequences commensurate to choices made:

    THIS IS VERY SIGNIFICANT

    “TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.”

    This is different, an extreme significant warning: https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/world-news/footage-shows-us-strike-that-obliterated-drug-carrying-boat-off-venezuela-killing-11-tda-narcoterrorists/

    This is a drastic message sent by the president specifically to the South American operations in the various country’s ferrying drugs into America. A message designed to instill great fear of the existential kind.

    An American administration willing to take such extreme offshore actions is a very different animal than has existed before in the world. Previously so many beaks were being wetted both in the underworld and within certain trickle-down government associated agencies that finance their day-to-day operations and their clandestine operations in let’s say creative ways.

    For four years the previous administration run by the desperate, treasonous “progressive” Democrat party machine flooded America with all kinds of operators from these countries for their own strategic political command and control reasons, and many are still here.

    What might the repercussions be related to such extreme administration actions within America? Whatever that potential might be this administration is ending business as usual and is establishing an entirely new American global power structure paradigm.

    From traitors within our country and our own government who were actively steering us down the road to literally surrendering and delivering America and its sovereignty to enemies like the Globalists in the U.N., the EU and the WEF this event today in the Carribean sea is a clear unmistakable signal to all that things are going to be very different in the world. If you had not got that memo before this one is unmistakable.

    Sobering, President Donald J. Trump is not an ambiguous wishy-washy president. No one wants the full spectrum and potential of American military assets actively focused and looking for them, especially when they have orders to kill. Ask the Iranian Mulla’s.

    I am not sure how effective this kind of extreme action will be with either President Xi or President Putin, but it will for sure have its effects on all concerned. Stay tuned and stand by.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 9/2/25

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/this-is-very-significant

  • David M. Cook

    This should make Jeff Wright happy, for a change!

  • Joe

    There has to be some reason for this. Space Command has been in Colorado for so long that entire communities will be gutted with this move. Of course it will take a long time and a good deal of money will be wasted and it might get reversed by the next president.

  • pzatchok

    I think their head quarters should be in Area 51.

    Not all solders work in a headquarters.

  • Doubting Thomas

    Tom Biggar: I hope you are right. Cancellation of Artemis – Oh my what a stroke of luck!

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