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Colorado Springs Passed Over As Permanent Home Of Space Command


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President Donald Trump watches with Vice President Mike Pence and Defense Secretary Mark Esper as the flag for U.S. space Command is unfurled as Trump announces the establishment of the U.S. Space Command in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019.
Updated 2:48 p.m.
The U.S. Space Command will likely call Alabama its permanent home and not Colorado. 
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced that the Air Force has selected Huntsville’s Redstone Arsenal as the preferred location Wednesday afternoon.
I couldn’t be more pleased to learn that Alabama will be the new home to the United States Space Command! Ivey said in a statement on Twitter. ....

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