President Trump announced Tuesday he is moving U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.

"They fought very hard to get it and it's an honor to give it to Huntsville," Trump said in announcing the move, which caps a four-year turf war between Alabama and Colorado.

The President signed an executive order in 2018 re-establishing Space Force. It became a standalone command in 2019, and Colorado Springs was named the temporary home.

In January of 2021 -- in his final days in office -- Trump announced Alabama would be the new home. But in 2023, President Joe Biden reversed that decision .

Gov. Jared Polis says Space Command became fully operational in December.

According to the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, it employs about 1,400 people an

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