Sweet Home Alabama: Huntsville named new US Space Command HQ

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00:00The U.S. Space Command has landed on a new home after years in Colorado.

00:07Seven years in the making. As you know, this has been going on for a long period of time.

00:12The U.S. Space Command is moving to Huntsville, Alabama.

00:15This move will save the taxpayers $480 million. It's not going to cost more. It's going to cut

00:24$480 million. In a statement, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey celebrated the decision

00:29saying, as I have said all along, there is no better place to locate Space Command headquarters

00:35than in Huntsville, Alabama. Today, the facts prevailed and it is official. Space Command

00:40headquarters is coming to Sweet Home, Alabama. U.S. Space Command monitors satellites,

00:46defends missile warning systems, and protects global communications. With China and Russia

00:51expanding their space capabilities, officials say the command's location is critical to national

00:57security. Whoever controls the skies will control the future of warfare.

01:01The announcement reverses a Biden-era decision. Space Command was reactivated in 2019, temporarily

01:08housed in Colorado Springs, and identified Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville as the preferred site in 2021.

01:15In 2023, the command was expected to stay in Colorado to avoid disrupting military readiness.

01:22Colorado Governor Jared Polis said the move will weaken national security, waste taxpayers' money,

01:28and inconvenience military families, calling for transparency on the decision.

01:33Trump cited frustration with Colorado's mail-in voting and past election issues as reasons for the move,

01:40claiming they contributed to crooked elections. Huntsville, known as Rocket City, is a high-tech hub

01:47with the nation's second-largest research park and the U.S. Space Rocket Center, home to Space Camp.

01:53Redstone Arsenal, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command

01:59have made Huntsville central to America's military and space programs.

02:03Trump also said the move to Alabama will create more than 30,000 jobs and bring billions in investment

02:10to the state. Read the full story right now on the Straight Arrow News mobile app or head to san.com.

02:16For Straight Arrow News, I'm Kaylee Carey.