(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce that the U.S. Space Command headquarters is moving from Colorado to Alabama, a source familiar with the move confirmed to NewsNation.
Trump is expected to confirm the change from the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon in what the Pentagon’s public affairs website called a “U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement,” the source said.
NewsNation will stream the announcement from this story when it begins.
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The move would shift the command’s operations from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.
Huntsville is nicknamed the “Rocket City” and has long been home to the Army’s Redstone Arsenal and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, along with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
Alabama was Trump’s top choice for headquarters location in 2021, the Associated Press reported at the time. In 2023, the Biden administration chose Colorado Springs as the command’s permanent site.
