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Gov. Kay Ivey pitches Huntsville as Space Command home in call with Pentagon Gov. Kay Ivey Posted: Dec 22, 2020 4:23 PM Updated: Dec 23, 2020 9:09 AM Posted By: Josh Rayburn, Will Robinson-Smith Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey tweeted that she spoke with Pentagon officials Tuesday to promote Alabama, and specifically Huntsville, as the home of the Space Command headquarters. It was announced in November that Redstone Arsenal is one of six candidates for selection. Redstone Arsenal said Space Command re...

/ Pentagon surveyors met with San Antonio officials this week to discuss the city’s bid to house U.S. Space Command. San Antonio is one of six finalists competing for its new headquarters. Since May, the city has waged a public campaign to attract the unified command, which pulls from the different military branches and oversees operations in space. It’s provisionally headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and employs about 1,400 people. In a virtual meeting...

UNM’s Physics & Astronomy Interdisciplinary Science Facility Albuquerque has some very important visitors today. And although the visit by representatives of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force is unfortunately limited to a virtual tour due to the pandemic, the visit has the potential of changing the landscape of the Duke City and New Mexico for the better for a hundred years or more. Albuquerque is on the short list of six cities being considered to permanently host the new headquarters for U...

4 universities join forces to lure Space Command HQ to Midwest Updated Dec 21, 2020; By Chris Dunker Lincoln Journal Star, Neb. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services Four universities, led by the University of Nebraska, are joining forces in making the case that the new headquarters for the U.S. Space Command should be located in the Cornhusker State. In an op-ed published Sunday in the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, the coalition said Nebraska offers an u...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A Department of Defense delegation will visit Kirtland Air Force Base, above, in January as Albuquerque is being considered as the permanent home of U.S. Space Command. Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will lead a brigade of local offi...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... OMAHA, Neb. — Four Midwestern universities have formed a space-oriented academic and research alliance aimed at luring the U.S. Space Command headquarters to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. University of Nebraska President Ted Carter said the partnership with the University of North Dakota, Kans...

Space Command HQ: Pentagon to hear New Mexico’s pitch today Updated Dec 21, 2020; Posted Dec 21, 2020 Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman (R), Space Force and Command Senior Enlisted Leader and CMSgt Roger Towberman (L), with Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, present US President Donald Trump with the official flag of the United States Space Force in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on May 15, 2020. (Samuel Corum/Pool/Getty Images/TNS)Samuel Corum/Pool | Getty I...

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personnel in the Space Force will be called Guardians. DEC. 19, 2020 | BY JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS Vice President Mike Pence announced that personnel in the Space Force will be called Guardians. He spoke during a White House event marking the first anniversary of the U.S. Space Force, yesterday. “It is my honor, on behalf of the President of the United States, to announce that, henceforth, the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as ‘Guardians,” Pence said during t...

When you look at the facts, the answer is clear: U.S. Space Command must stay in Colorado. It’s not just because of our incredible quality of life, or the fact that our education system and workforce are uniquely trained to carry out this mission and launch it to the next level, or even that our aerospace industry is one of the largest and most innovative in the country. But it’s that all of these things together make up an ecosystem that is undeniably suited to guarantee the operational su...