Space Force Command is being relocated to Huntsville, Alabama

[Yvonne Smith]

President Trump intended for the Space Force Command Center to be here in Huntsville at Redstone Arsenal when he started it back in his first term as president. We have most of the big technology companies here, as well as NASA, Missile Command, big contractors like Northrop Grumman, and several others. We already had a large FBI office at Redstone, but they are sending out even more people for that also.

People tend to think of Alabama as just kind of a laid back hillbilly/redneck state; but Huntsville is definitely not part of that, and has all kinds of connections to space agencies and programs.
Once Space Command is here, it will be even busier.
I just came across this interesting video about this happening, and they are saying that if the United States were ever attacked, Huntsville would be the number three target, so we are right up there with the White House and the Pentagon.

This is kind of a rabbit hole, but it is talking about when the NAZI scientists were secretly brought here after WW2, and what has been happening at the arsenal since then. It talks about a huge underground base with lots happening in secret on the arsenal, as well some kind of secret launching pad that is hidden in a mountain near here, and anti-gravity technology and spacecraft here.
Since we live basically right across the street from Redstone Arsenal, this was a pretty interesting video to me, and I also read most of the comments that people posted about the video.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

In the very late 1970s/early 1980 I turned down an introduction and job interview offer in Huntsville with the newly-renamed Intergraph Corporation. As M&S Computing, Inc. they had been working with the Army and NASA on electronic missile guidance systems, though their core competencies were in graphical workstations and software.

At the time I was too wrapped up in personal matters and got married in 1980. Relocation wasn't on my radar at 24 years old.

Of course many of us in the field had been aware of Operation Paperclip nd the numerous technological innovations it brought here and later developed further. I'd attended a packed lecture by W. von Braun locally after school hours in 1974, having been interested in space ever since those Mercury missions. Rumors about "other captured" technology were common currency. Did "other" mean German? Maybe.

I was flattered to be considered though, since I had no completed college degrees.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Sorry, that reads as a brag in the light of morning.

I was trying to state agreement about Huntsville as a hub by citing an example of a high technology military contractor I had some passing familiarity with. Rumination and remembrance led me to rambling. I really am getting old I guess.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I didn’t see it as any kind of a brag, just sharing some interesting information. Even though I really miss living out west, Huntsville IS a pretty interesting city to live in, and we probably have some of the best doctors anywhere, right here in this place, because we do have so many military people, and retired military as well.

It would be interesting if there is some kind of a disclosure, and it sure would help to explain some of the UFO sightings that people have had, not just here, but in other states as well.
We have speculated for years about the UFO sightings, and even more about the ones in paintings from several hundred years ago, so it would be pretty interesting if we actually learn we have been visited by extra-terrestrials, and have gotten some of our technology from them over all these many years.

I find it highly interesting that we still have people living in jungles or other remote places who are still completely primitive, and have never even began to develop anything different from what they have always had, while at the same time, we have people with advanced technology like we have in the developed countries.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I find it highly interesting that we still have people living in jungles or other remote places who are still completely primitive, and have never even began to develop anything different from what they have always had, while at the same time, we have people with advanced technology like we have in the developed countries.

Yet, oddly enough, certain types of societal and technological development appear to have "sprung up" in widely separated corners of the planet almost simultaneously.

This suggests different explanations, some seeming more likely than others.

 

[Don Alaska]

A friend who is a helicopter pilot--and fixed-wing as well--was talking about fighting wildfires from the air around Clear AFS which was an Air Force installation and has been converted to a Space Force base. It is a top secret installation similar to Area 51 according to him, and the aircraft fighting the fires had to remain outside the perimeter of the base. He said that modern helicopter rotors are filled with a radioactive gas and have a radiation detector on the transmission that informs the pilot of a radiation leak that would indicate a cracked rotor. My friend said the crack detection was unable to work when they were flying near the Space Force base as the ambient radiation was so high around the bases that the detectors had to be turned off since they were constantly alarming. I wonder what they are doing up there?

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I wonder what they are doing up there?

Isn't it obvious? They're getting their Glow on, so when they go to Mars, they will fit in with the little green men.

Sorry, I tried and failed to resist posting that. But seriously, I agree that Redstone is where the Space Force Command Center needs to be.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I just read about the Saturn 5 Rocket that was in an Alabama Welcome Center on I-65 for 44 years was taken down and moved to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is the last of the
Moon Rockets", and surely a loss for tourism in Hunstville, Alabama.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I can’t find anything that says our big rocket was moved. Where did you read that, @Axel Slingerland ? Bobby said he thinks there used to be three rockets and now there is only two, so maybe one was moved. You are talking about the big tall ones, correct ?

 

[Axel Slingerland]

This is the website I got that information from. But I have to admit, I did not read it as carefully as I thought I did.

That leaves us with two Saturn IBs left, SA-209 and SA-211, neither saw flight but were saved from being scrapped due to their usefulness and maybe a little luck. SA-209 was sent to Kennedy Space Center where it served as a standby incase Skylab 4 or Apollo-Soyuz needed rescuing. It was proposed to be used to boost Skylab’s orbit in hope it could be used by the Space Shuttle but that was canceled. The rocket now sits at Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex in its rocket garden, the only remaining Saturn IB rocket fully intact and on display.

SA-211 stayed in Huntsville, its first stage displayed at the US Rocket and Space Center and its second stage converted into the Skylab underwater training simulator. In 1979 the S-IB first stage was transported to the I-65 Alabama Welcome Center and fixed with a mockup second stage for display. It stayed outside for 44 years until last week.

Some of its parts will be scrapped while other preserved, presumably the original first stage and its engines. NASA still owns the rocket so its fate lands on it for where it will go or what will be done with it.

It pays to read things carefully, but I didn't do that in this case.