From Brett Tingley's 9-2-25 SPACE.COM article entitled "Trump Moves US Space Command to Alabama's 'Rocket City'":
President Donald Trump just announced that U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.In an Oval Office press conference on Tuesday (Sept. 2), Trump stated that U.S. Space Command, which oversees space-based warfighting capabilities across the entire U.S. military, including the Space Force, will move to Alabama, reversing a decision by the previous presidential administration.
"I am thrilled to report that the U.S. Space Command headquarters will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from this point forward as 'Rocket City,'" Trump stated today, using a nickname that has long described Huntsville. "We love Alabama. I only won it by about 47 points. I don't think that influenced my decision, right?"
To read Tingley's entire article, click HERE.
I know what you're wondering, of course! You're wondering, "Are there any fictional narratives (other than Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW) that juxtapose conspiratorial skulduggery with an insidious government facility called 'Rocket City'?" The answer to that perceptive question can be found in a brief excerpt from my novella "Rocket City Murder," which is included in my Wonderland Award-nominated collection WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION & OTHER WEIRD CRIMES (Eraserhead Press, 2021):
WIDOW
OF THE AMPUTATION & OTHER WEIRD CRIMES is a collection of four
novellas that explore the madness of murder through the warped lenses of
urban noir, science fiction, horror, and experimental fantasy.
In
DECAY IN AMBER, a convicted rapist and murderer wakes up one morning to
discover he is only six inches tall and floating down the middle of the
L.A. River in a beer bottle. In ROCKET CITY MURDER, a police lieutenant
has only twenty-four hours to solve a brutal triple-murder committed
within the secretive confines of the bio warfare research lab known as
Micropolis. In WIDOW OF THE AMPUTATION, the mythologies of various
cultures collide as Charles Manson succeeds in busting out of Corcoran
Penitentiary. And in YOU MIGHT AS WELL DIE, a crime noir writer is led
into a clever cat-and-mouse game intended to frame him for a murder he
himself unknowingly devised.
"Guffey is my kind of crazy. He
understands that the universe is preposterous, life is improbable, and
chaos rules: get used to it." -Pat Cadigan, author of MINDPLAYERS
"Robert
Guffey's writing has impressed, entertained, and enlightened me pretty
much since I first met him. My suggestion? If he wrote it, read it." -
Jack Womack, author of RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
"A
playful amalgam of Andy Kaufman and Philip K. Dick..." - Damien Lincoln
Ober, author of DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S DREAM AMERICA
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