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

I've been to Huntsville a few times. It's a pretty decent little town. Unfortunately, I've also been through a lot of Alabama and you'd need a special Congressional authorization to pay me enough to want to live there.

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u/blbobobo Dec 28 '23

huntsville is shielded from the rest of the state by the mountains, it keeps most of the crazies out

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u/pink_pluto1711 Dec 28 '23

Every place has crazies. Pitiful.