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By TOM ROEDER | The Gazette | Published: April 10, 2021 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Local leaders including Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers inked a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, overturning a January Trump administration decision to uproot it and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama. Decrying the Alabama move as too costly and motivated by politics, Suthers was joined in the Thursday letter by El Pas...

Huntsville is up to the task of hosting US Space Command Mark S. Chandler 2 hours ago A Saturn V rocket replica is seen outside the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. (Loren Elliott/AFP via Getty Images) Retired Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart’s March 29 commentary, “Why Space Command should stay in Colorado,” does a disservice to Huntsville, Ala. I feel for Renuart’s disappointment in the decision to make Huntsville, Al...

Mayor Urges Pentagon to Keep Space Command in Colorado Springs Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond established Space Operations Command (SpOC), the U.S. Space Forces first of three Field Commands, during a ceremony at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, Oct. 21, 2020. (U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong) 10 Apr 2021 The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) | By TOM ROEDER COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Loca...

Changing our form of government Have you heard the saying “I vote for the person, not the party”? The meaning is that it is more important to vote for a person with good character and values that are aligned with mine, than considering their political party. Once elected, the candidate is expected to represent their constituents rather than their party. One can debate this approach, but if the idea once had merit, it is no longer true. There was a time when there was room in each political ...

1 of 2 The Associated Press fIle The Associated Press fIle Former President Donald Trump watches with Vice President Mike Pence and Defense Secretary Mark Esper as the flag for U.S. Space Command is unfurled at the White House in Washington in 2019. The Associated Press fIle

Shutterstock.com Space Command is slated to move from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama, and efforts are underway to overturn the Trump administration’s last-minute decision to relocate the command. But if the decision stands, Colorado Springs’ aerospace sector will continue to grow, local leaders say. “My view is that it’s not so much losing things that are not here, but not growing as much as we might in the future if Space Command was...

By   Murielle Delaporte on April 09, 2021 at 10:53 AM A screen shot from control center during France’s first military space exercise, ASTERX, in March. PARIS: France led its first multinational military space exercise last month, with Germany, Italy and the US, marking the country’s effort to re-vamp its forces and operations to meet 21st century threats. The exercise signals the French government’s intent to reach for a higher ‘orbit’ as a sovereign nation in order to be able to ...

By THE SANTA MARIA TIMES Published: April 8, 2021 SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Two U.S. senators and a congressman from California have called for military officials to consider Vandenberg Air Force Base as a top candidate for a new space readiness and training unit after rejecting the base for U.S. Space Command headquarters. Rep. Salud Carbajal and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla also requested more information about why Vandenberg AFB was knocked off the list to h...

Space Force to Absorb USAF Command to Run Launches, Research The Space and Missile Systems Center will become Space Systems Command. LAS VEGAS — The U.S. Space Force will soon absorb an Air Force command that will be repurposed to lead areas of endeavor from research to launches.  On Thursday, Space Force officials revealed new details about the long-planned transfer of the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, which will this summer be renamed Space Systems Command, or ...

By DAVID BITTON | The Gazette | Published: April 6, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Military leaders across Colorado are still rushing to vaccinate troops, but it remains unclear how many are opting out of vaccines and how that could impact ...