It’s been more than two years since the Air Force announced Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville as the “preferred location” for the permanent home of the U.S. Space Command.

And more than two years later, the Air Force last week announced “additional analysis” of the decision is underway. And the years-long delay and continued review is feeding uncertainty that Space Command will ever make it to Alabama.

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“We don’t know the direction that they’re going to go in,” U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Wednesday.

That would appear to be a step back from the Rocket City’s excitement and added prestige in bringing a high-profile command – not to mention about 1,400 jobs — inside the gates of Redstone Arsenal. Tuberville said Redstone Arsenal “passed all the reviews with flying colors.”

“Then it seems to be almost, ‘We want another review,’” Tuberville said. “I mean, I don’t know what else they can review. (Redstone is) by far the best place.”

At issue, of course, is ongoing lobbying from Colorado lawmakers and officials in trying to keep Space Command at its start-up location in Colorado Springs.

Ultimately, though, the future location of Space Command is being pushed further into the unknown, Tuberville said.

“I think they’re getting close to a decision,” Tuberville said, referring to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall. “But who knows? It could be tomorrow. It could be this time next week or it could be six months from now.”

Military.com reported Kendall said at symposium last week in Colorado that the Air Force is doing “additional analysis; we want to make very sure we got this right and have a well-defended decision.”

Asked Wednesday if the additional analysis could be anything but bad news for Redstone – given it has emerged superior to other sites under consideration in all other reviews – Tuberville acknowledged that possibility.

“That’s a good question,” the senator said. “And you never know how to take it.”

Tuberville repeated his assertion that Colorado’s fight is based entirely in politics. At the same time, Colorado lawmakers say politics is why Alabama became the preferred choice in the first place – which was announced in the final days of the Trump presidency in January 2020. Then eight months later, Trump took full credit for the decision, saying on the Rick & Bubba radio show that he “single-handedly” made the decision for Space Command to go to Alabama.

In both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Alabama voters backed Trump while Colorado voters backed Democrats Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, respectively.

“They’re trying to get President Biden to get politically involved and appoint this, and this should be on the shoulders of the Secretary of Air Force, Frank Kendall,” Tuberville said.

The senator also voiced his confidence in Kendall.

“I’ve talked with Secretary Kendall,” Tuberville said. “I know he’ll do the right thing at the end of the day. It just matters when. We’ll have to wait and see.”

Tuberville reiterated Wednesday his argument that while Colorado is fighting to keep Space Command, the state’s Peterson Space Force Base was not among the top two sites in the Air Force reviews.

“You have Colorado that’s trying to throw a wrench into this,” Tuberville said. “And they’re not even the top three.

Tuberville pointed to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and Joint Base San Antonio in Texas as the runners-up to Redstone.

“But neither of the other two are complaining about this,” Tuberville said. “They know we need to get on with business here.”