US President Donald Trump speaks in an oval office in the White House on September 2, 2025 in Washington. On the left is Senator Katie Britt, R-Ala. On the right are the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeth and US senator Tommy Tuberville, R-La. (Photo Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Washington – President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the American Space Command will permanently move to Huntsville in Alabama, leaving the fleeting headquarters in Colorado.
The transfer returns to Trump’s plans during his first administration to locate the fighter command in Alabama to supervise the space force, the military unit, which he created in 2019.
Since then, it has its headquarters supported from the Peterson Space Force base in Colorado Springs. The location of the command was a political long -term fight.
“As you know, it has been going on for a long time and I am glad that the American headquarters of the spatial command will move to a beautiful place called Huntsville in Alabama, forever known from this moment as” City Rocket ” – said Trump, flanked by Republicans from Alabama on Tuesday in the afternoon.
“We love Alabama. I only won her by about 47 points. I don’t think it influenced my decision,” he said. (Advantage won According to the Associated Press, nine election election universities in November by 31 percentage points. Former vice president of Kamala Harris won 10 votes in Colorado with 11 percentage points.)
Trump said that his plans to root the space command in Arsenal Redstone in Huntsville were “unlawfully covered by Biden administration.”
In July 2023, the Biden administration decided to maintain a space command in Colorado Springs to ensure “peak readiness in the cosmic field”, in accordance with the General report of the Department of the Defense Inspector Published in April 2025. report It was not ambiguous about why the air force did not push the decision, despite the preferences of the department for Alabama.
“Today we are going forward with what we want to do, and the place where we want to have it, and this will be there, hope hundreds of years,” said Trump. “I will say that I want to thank Colorado. The problem I have with Colorado, one of the great problems, vote by post. They went to all voting in the post office, so they automatically have curves of the election.”
Since the defeat of the election at Biden in 2020, Trump repeated unfounded claims regarding the post voting card and their impact on the elections.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth said that the president “restores (space command) exactly where it should be.”
“Whoever controls the sky will control the future of the war, and Mr. President, today you assure you that this will happen,” said HegeSeth.
Republicans from Alabama are content with the Space Command
Republican sense of Alabama. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt praised the president when they stood next to him in an oval office.
“Mr. President, we are grateful for your leadership in the case and restoring the space command to his legitimate home in Huntsville, Alabama,” Britt said, adding that “of course Biden administration decided to do it political.”
Tuberville said that the traffic would save taxpayers $ 480 million. The Newsroom states did not verify this number independently, and the April IG report did not cite specific relocation costs. He also emphasized NASA’s presence in Huntsville as an advantage.
“I have talked to the president for the last three or four years about it. If I thought he had to go somewhere else, because (from) the safety of our country I would be for it. But the best place to the Space Command is Huntsville, Alabama, because what we have and what it means for this country will be so important,” said Tuberville.
The claim was promised by Colorado AG
But officials chosen in Colorado do not withdraw. Governor Colorado Jared Polis, a democrat, described this decision as “deeply disappointing” for his country and “waste of taxpayers’ dollars.”
Prosecutor General Colorado Phil Weiser said on Tuesday in a statement that he was planning to take administration to court in connection with the “unlawful” relocation, which he described as “political games”.
“The headquarters of command in Alabama in Alabama is not only incorrect for our national defense, but is harmful to hundreds of cosmic command staff and their families. These residents of El Paso are our neighbors. They relied on the decision of the Federal Government to maintain the main quarters in Colorado Springs – they bought houses for their families, selected schools for their children and contributed to the local schools and they contributed to their families economy. ” Weiser said.
“The office of the Prosecutor General in Colorado has prepared himself in the event that the president made such an unlawful decision to transfer the headquarters of the Command Command HQ. If the Trump administration takes this step – I am ready to challenge him in court.”
The entire bilateral Congress delegation in Colorado published a statement on Tuesday, which slammed the announcement of relocation.
“Today’s decision to transfer the headquarters of the Main Space Command from Colorado and Alabama will directly harm our state and the nation. We are united, fighting to reverse this decision. To sum up – to refer to the headquarters of the main space command weakens our national security at the worst possible time”, according to the statement.
