A Strategic Shift to “Rocket City” for the New High Ground On September 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that the headquarters of U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) would relocate from Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama — reversing a prior decision and fulfilling a site-selection process that had originally favored Alabama. The move, now well underway as of April 2026, is a deliberate, phased transition de
