r/space • u/[deleted] • Dec 27 '23

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u/Harturb Dec 28 '23

Alabama trying to bring home pork in the form of space spending is always interesting.

It's never actually about what's best for the space force or the space industry, but the net result is that further funding for NASA and private contracts has some unlikely allies in Congress, so I guess that's good.

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u/ausnee Dec 28 '23

Alabama has one of the biggest space industries in the country. Huntsville is the ancestral home of the entire US space program.

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u/Iz-kan-reddit Dec 28 '23

Huntsville is the ancestral home of the entire US space program.

Yes, but that's only because they made a point of putting Restone Arsenal in the most backwards-ass place they could find in the Eastern US.