The Loss of Space Command Headquarters Brings an Alabama City Down
'Huntsville, a city with a proud history of aerospace innovation, was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics. ...while the city worked to be even more central to the aerospace and military industry. It attracted legions of scientists, defense contractors and federal investment. And in the final days of the Trump administration, Huntsville was selected as the permanent home of the United States Space Command. But this week the Pentagon announced it had reversed that call...The Biden administration’s decision, said Representative Terri Sewell, the lone Democrat representing Alabama in Washington, “bows to the whims of politics over merit.”'
Reference: www.nytimes.com
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