Trump to Move 'Space Command,' Overruling Biden

President to announce agency will move from Colorado to Alabama
Posted Sep 2, 2025 11:00 AM CDT
Trump to Move 'Space Command,' Overruling Biden
In this 2019 photo, President Trump, left, watches with Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, second from right, as the flag for US Space Command is unfurled outside the White House.   (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

President Trump is going to end a yearslong political tug-of-war on Tuesday: The president will announce that the US Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, reports Politico, the AP, and other outlets. Trump established—technically, re-established—the agency during his first term, and Space Command set up temporary headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, per CBS News. Former President Biden then decreed that the agency should remain there permanently in 2023, but Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday that it's moving to Huntsville, Alabama.

The two states have been vying for the honors for years, and Reuters notes that politics has factored prominently in the debate. Alabama is a reliably red state, while Colorado has been voting Democratic in recent elections. Huntsville—aka "Rocket City"—is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Space Command's mission is to protect American interests in space—satellites, in particular. The agency came into being in the mid-1980s, then got folded into the US Strategic Command in 2002. Trump made it a stand-alone agency again in 2018.

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