“Make US Space Force Center in Ohio” State Legislators Insist Higher Officials To Consider The Possibility of Space Center in State
Columbus, OH: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and members of the Ohio delegation urged the Department of Defense to choose Ohio as the location for U.S. Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command’s Space Delta 12 mission.
Brown recommended that members contemplate NASA Glenn’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky as its new headquarters.
“Ohio is a space state. Our state is integral to the history of flight, and because of our manufacturing prowess, federal assets, world-class research institutions, and skilled workforce, the future of aviation and space innovation will take place in Ohio,” wrote the Senators. “The proximity of military and federal space-related missions in Ohio represents a unique opportunity to accelerate and grow the capabilities of the United States. The confluence of missions and technologies in Ohio is unmatched and must be considered as the Air Force and Space Force reorganize to meet the requirements of an evolving Great Power Competition.”
Lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, and Chief of Space Operations General B. Chance Saltzman, stating that Ohio is well-suited to host Space Force’s Delta 12 mission due to its abundance of space, national security industries, world-class research universities, and existing U.S. Air Force and NASA bases and facilities.
The Delta 12 mission of the Space Force is tasked with testing and assessing the capabilities of the U.S. Space Force.
Lawmakers believe that NASA Glenn’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility has unique and top-tier space simulation test facilities that will improve the Space Force’s operational efficiency, making it the ideal location for Delta 12. The Neil Armstrong Test Facility would enable Delta 12 to do tests in hypersonics, in-space propulsion, space environment modeling, and electric aircraft testing.
U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and U.S. Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Max Miller (R-OH-07), Shontel Brown (D-OH-11), Warren Davidson (R-OH-08), Joyce Beatty (D-OH-03), Bob Latta (R-OH-05), Greg Landsman (D-OH-01), and Emilia Sykes (D-OH-13) also endorsed the letter, along with Brown.
