Make Space Great Again…From Huntsville UPDATE

During Trump’s first run for office, I was so taken with one campaign t-shirt, I ordered one for each of us. 

And then I thought it was so pretty, I hardly wore it. So it still looks practically brand-new.

That’s the t-shirt in my cover photo – isn’t it tha bomb?

And isn’t it so perfect to be able to break it out today, for something that made perfect sense when Trump 45 announced it years ago.

Space Force should have always been in Huntsville with the rest of the rocket scientists, and now, at long last, it will be.

BREAKING: Trump has OFFICIALLY directed the Space Force HQ to be stationed in Huntsville, Alabama!

This is COMMON SENSE, given its proximity to NASA.

The icing on the cake is that this will create 30,000 new jobs in the state!

WINNING!!! pic.twitter.com/cYAgPewT5B

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) September 2, 2025

It has always made sense, which is why it was the no-brainer choice for its home originally. The proximity to so many of NASA’s extended agencies already physically in Huntsville, many of them safe and sound behind the guarded walls of Redstone Arsenal. The Marshall Space Flight Center, which is NASA’s ‘lead center for the development of rocket propulsion systems and technologies,’ is way cool to drive past. I had no idea it was up there on my first visit to Huntsville.

   

 

It was the obvious and, even better, economical choice in 2020.

2/ The Air Force itself said Huntsville was the best site back in 2020.

Why? Redstone Arsenal. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. A Blue Origin factory. Lockheed Martin and every contractor you can name.

Huntsville is Rocket City, USA. pic.twitter.com/Yh6PrpNRHj

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) September 2, 2025

Not only because of what was already in the area, contractor-wise and NASA assets, but because the location is perfect. Right on I-65, a centrally located north-south main interstate, just a short run to the Port of Mobile for trucked-in, shipped, or rail parts. Easy access to the Houston Space Center and any tie-ins with SpaceX that might be in current development. 

If they need to head east to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, they turn left when they hit I-10 instead of right, and off they go. Or, for that matter, if they have to send folks down to work with Central Command in Tampa. It’s all within a day’s drive – granted, a long one, but the most important feature of Huntsville is, as we always say, ‘You can get there from here.‘

Switching the Space Force headquarters to Colorado Springs was a bitter, vindictive political move by the incoming Biden administration to pull a justifiable defense placement asset away from a red voting state and hand it off to a blue one. 

…“As I have long stated, locating the permanent Space Command headquarters at Redstone Arsenal is in the best national security interest of the United States. In 2021, the Air Force made a decision to choose Redstone as the preferred basing location purely on merits, as Huntsville finished first in both the Air Force’s Evaluation Phase and Selection Phase. To the detriment of U.S. national security, President Biden chose to undermine the integrity of the process and put politics ahead of merit by yanking this military decision out of the Air Force’s hands,” said Senator Britt.

3/ But in 2023, Biden overruled the Space Force and the Air Force, and gave the HQ to Colorado Springs.

Not because it was better. But because Colorado is a mail-in voting state that props up Democrats.

Corruption over capabilities. pic.twitter.com/8lesRhfZxm

— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) September 2, 2025

Alabama’s governor, the inimitable Kay ‘MeeMaw‘ Ivey, said the state was ready before, and they’ll sure as shootin’ be ready again, so git ‘er done.

“Space Command Headquarters is coming to Sweet Home Alabama,” said Governor Ivey. She highlighted the state’s preparations since 2018, following President Trump’s directive to the Department of Defense to plan for the new military branch, Space Force.

Governor Ivey emphasized the readiness of the Redstone Arsenal region, stating, “The Redstone Arsenal region was ready to welcome Space Command Headquarters when I made the official pitch to the Defense secretary in June 2019, and it remains ready today to not only welcome Headquarters, but to welcome all of the military personnel and their families.”

She commended local leaders and the Congressional delegation for their efforts, particularly Congressman Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Service Committee. “As our history shows, Alabama always stands ready to support the defense of our great nation, and Huntsville continues proving the Rocket City is truly ‘Space Central,’” said Ivey.

Congressman Aderholt released the following statement after joining President Donald Trump at the White House, alongside members of the Alabama delegation, for the announcement that the U.S. Space Command will be permanently located in Huntsville, AL:

It’s going to be a helluva lot cheaper to house those military personnel in Alabama, too, so there’s already money on the table saved with the announced move.

Sen Tuberville is saying it’s a money saver from the get-go.

TOMMY TUBERVILLE claims moving Space Command will “save taxpayers $480 million dollars.” pic.twitter.com/Ejp5oIXoRB

— Fox News (@FoxNews) September 2, 2025

They said they did the math, and it could well be close with the cost of operations in Colorado alone.

It’s hilarious what smug progressives think they know when they don’t have a clue.

Space Force is headed to Huntsville Bama! Then you got people like this who work at Starbucks with zero knowledge of history making themselves look really dumb pic.twitter.com/lv3Bn97Sqw

— CAMELCAST OFFICIAL (@CAMELCASTOff) September 2, 2025

For the ignorant and uninitiated, Huntsville, AL is ‘Rocket City,’ birthed by the very man who started it all for the United States. Werner Von Braun even had the foresight to ensure that a museum would be founded to preserve and document the space history being made in Huntsville.

Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket scientists transformed Huntsville, Alabama, known in the 1950s as the “Watercress Capital of the World,” into a technology center that today is home to the second largest research park in the United States and to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (USSRC) with its world-class educational program, Space Camp®.

The transformation grew from the smoke and fire that birthed America’s space program. It is here in Huntsville that:

• Rockets were developed that put the first U.S. satellite into orbit and sent men to the moon;
• Propulsion for the space shuttle was developed
• Modules for the International Space Station (ISS) were designed and built;
• America’s next great ship – the Space Launch System – is being designed;
• Science on the ISS is monitored 24/7 at the Payload Operations Center at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).

During the final months that von Braun and his team of scientists were refining the giant Saturn V rocket that sent Apollo astronauts to the moon, he was also preparing to launch another important project: a permanent exhibit to showcase the hardware of the space program. Von Braun was director of MSFC when he approached the Alabama Legislature with the idea of creating a museum jointly with the U.S. Army Missile Command and NASA. The U.S. Army donated land, and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center® opened its doors in 1970. Since then, nearly 17 million people have toured the Center. Many of the more than 650,000 annual visitors are school students on field trips to their future. Dozens of interactive exhibits encourage guest participation, prompting one official to note: “Here, everyone can be an astronaut for the day!“

ROCKET CITY

Where better for Space Force to be?

Space might really be great again at this rate.

That’s pretty cool.

I know I voted for it.

Beege UPDATES:  The WAAHS! are arriving, as are the mic drop answers.

Rx Outer Space was invented in Huntsville Alabama by Werner Von Braun, @GovofCO. https://t.co/4HJ6BUI2Ph pic.twitter.com/3pdMA9uHL7

— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) September 3, 2025

Put THAT in your Saturn Five and smoke it, Governor.

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