The U.S. Space Command headquarters is now planned for a move from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.

“We had a lot of competition for this, and Alabama’s getting it,” President Trump said Tuesday from the Oval Office, saying he hopes it stays there “for hundreds of years.”

It’s the latest in a yearslong series of back-and-forth reversals about the headquarters’ next home base. Trump first announced the move to Alabama at the end of his first administration. Colorado leaders asked for further reviews of how the decision was made, after which President Biden announced the headquarters would stay in Colorado.

“Alabama always stands ready to support the defense of our great nation, and Huntsville continues proving the Rocket City is truly ‘Space Central,’” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) said Tuesday in a press release.

Trump said his landslide electoral win in Alabama didn’t influence his decision but that part of the calculus was Colorado’s wide use of mail-in ballots.

DOD photo by Thomas Paul