Senior U.S. officials say President Joe Biden has decided to keep the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama.

President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama and ending months of politically fueled debate, according to senior U.S. officials.

The officials said Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson’s view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the decision ahead of the announcement.

The president, they said, believes that keeping the command in Colorado Springs would avoid a disruption in readiness that the move would cause, particularly as the U.S. races to compete with China in space. And they said Biden firmly believes that maintaining stability will help the military be better able to respond in space over the next decade. Those factors, they said, outweighed what the president believed would be any minor benefits of moving to Alabama.

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  • magnetosphere @beehaw.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “It’s clear that far-left politics, not national security, was the driving force behind this decision.”

    Yeah, no. The decision not to move isn’t political, as much as he’d like it to be. The Space Force headquarters already exists. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

    Also, somebody should tell these conservative crybabies that shouting about “far-left politics” every single time they don’t get their way really dilutes the term. Haven’t these people ever heard about the boy who cried wolf?