THE city chosen to host the White House's Space Command headquarters is a rural Alabama town with a deep-rooted history with NASA.

Huntsville earned the nickname Rocket City after producing the ship that put the Apollo 11 crew on the Moon in 1969.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that the federal government's Space Command center would be moved from Colorado Springs to the southern town.

This came after he signed an order to bring back the center in 2018 after it had been absorbed in 2002 into the US Strategic Command.

Since his first term, Trump has expressed his intentions to reestablish America as a leader in space exploration and believed that investing in Huntsville was the way forward.

However, in 2023, when Joe Biden was president, his administration decided

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