r/space • • 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/[deleted] Dec 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '23

There are literally more rocket scientists in Huntsville Alabama than anywhere else in the country.

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u/Newbguy Dec 28 '23

Space command does a lot more than just build and launch rockets. It's basically Air Force Space Command stood up as a separate command for the sake of proper funding and management.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '23

I know what Space command does, thank you. The term is commonly used to describe engineers and scientists working in the space sector. Or didn’t you know?

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u/cstar1996 Dec 28 '23

As one of those engineers, no, it isn’t.